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THE  KENTUCKY  SCULPTOR 


FROM  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE  BLUE  GRASS 


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Breckinridge,  Issa  Desha, 
"The  work  shall  praise  the 
master" 


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TIFFANY  &  CO., 


NEW  YORK.  LONDON.  PARIS. 


BY   SPECIAL  APPOINTMENT, 


Gold  and  Silversmitlis  to  Her  Majesty  the  Queen  of  Eng- 
land, the  Emperors  of  Germany,  Russia,  Austria, 
and  to  all  the  Courts  of  Europe. 


IMPORTERS   OF    AND   DEALERS   IN 


Diamonds   and   other   Precious    Stones,  Jewelry,   Fancy 

Goods,  rich  Pottery  and  Glass,  Marble  and  Bronze 

Statuary,  and  other  Objects  of  Art. 


MANUFACTURERS  OF 


Silver  and  Silver  Plated  Ware  of  the  finest  grades,  Jew- 
elry, Watches,  simple  and  complicated,  Clocks, 
fine  Leather  Goods  and  Stationery. 


Their  stock  includes  not  only  the  most  luxurious 
and  costly  objects,  but  is  the  most  complete  assortment 
of  articles  of  the  kind  required  by  persons  in  moderate 
circumstances,  whose  attention  is  asked,  and  comparison 
of  prices  courted. 

Designs  and  estimates  for  special  work  sent  on 
application,  and  articles  for  selection  sent  to  any  part 
of  the  United  States,  on  receipt  of  satisfactory  introduc- 
tion or  reference. 


SOUTHERN^EXPOSITION, 

OIP      1SS4:. 

Opens  August  16th,  and  Continues  Seventy-one   Days,  Clos- 
ing October  25th. 


The  Main  Building  Covering  THIRTEEN  ACRES  of  Ground,  with  a 
number  of  annexes,  in  a  Park  of  Forty  Acres. 


THE  LARGEST  AND  FINEST  DISPLAY 


"Woman  Triumphant," 

AND  ALL  OF 

HAItT'S   G^IIEATEST   CREATIONS 

WILL  FORM  A  PART  OF  THE  ART  GALLERY. 


FIRE-PROOF    ART    BUILDINGS, 

CONTAINING  THE 


TWO  CONCERTS  EACH  DAY, 

CAPPA'S   MAGNIFICENT   NEW   YORK   SEVENTH    REGIMENT   BAND,  from  the 

opening  until  September  23rd.  and  from  that  time  to  the  close, 

GILMORE'S    WORLD    FAMOUS    BAND. 


GROUNDS  AND   BUILDINGS  ILLUMINATED  BY 

THOUSANDS  OF  ELECTRIC  LIGHTS. 


REDUCED  PASSENGER  RATES  from  all  parts  of  the  United  States  during  the 

entire  period.    EXCURSION   RATES,    North,    South,   East,   and  West, 

that  will  place  it  within  the  power  of  every  one  to  visit  the 

GREAT    EXHIBITION    OF    THE    NEW    SOUTH. 


A  SPLENDID  HORTICULTURAL  HALL, 

Filled  with  Growing  Plants,  Flowers,  and  Fruits,  and  illustrating  Tropical  Vegetation. 


AN   IMMENSE  LIVE  STOCK  EXHIBITION, 

Presenting  at  one  time  in  line  over  $1,000,000  worth  of  horses,  comprising  all  the  sire 

that  have  made  Kentucky  famous.    The  exhibit  will  surpass  in  extent  the  Royal 

Stock  Show  in  London,  and  present  to  the  visitor  the  grandest,  completest, 

and  most  magnificent  Stock  Exhibit  the  world  has  ever  witnessed, 

and  a  sight  that  can  not  be  duplicated  anywhere  else. 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART.  3 

To  Joel  T.  Hart,  Kentucky  has  a  right  to  feel  proud 
that  she  gave  birth,  and  America  should  gratefully  en- 
roll his  name  in  the  catalogue  of  her  departed  great. — 
Extract  from  Courier- Journal. 


O.  A.  GILMAN. 

DEALER    IN 

WOOL,  HEMP,  GRAIN,  AND  SEEDS. 


ALSO  PROPRIETOR  AND  MANUFACTURER  OF  THE  CELEBRATED 

SPEAR'S  PATENT  GRASS  SEED  GATHERER. 

BLTJE    &PtA.SS    S£:ED    A.   SPECIALTY. 

1^=^  Paris,  Kentucky.  -^^^^ 


CENTRAL  UNIVERSITY, 

College  of  Philosophy,  Letters  a^d  SciEf(CE 

RICHMOND,  KY. 

Next  Session  will  Open  Wednesday  September  3rd,  1884. 

ADVANTAGES.— A  FULL  FACULTY  of  able  and  experienced  instructors.  Com- 
prehensive course  of  study  and  thorough  instruction.  Completeness  of  buildings  and  ap- 
paratus. 

Social  Influence. — The  community  is  distinguished  for  its  refined  culture  and  hos- 
pitality, and  young  men  find  homes  in  the  BEST  families.     Not  a  saloon  in  the  City. 

Healtlifulness  of  Location, — Richmond  is  at  an  elevation  of  more  than  500  leet 
above  the  Ohio  River,  and  free  from  all  malarial  influences. 

Accessibility.— Richmond  is  the  geographical  center  of  the  State,  in  the  heart  of  the 
Blue  Grass  region,  and  is  within  a  few  hours,  by  rail,  of  Louisville,  Cincinnati,  Knox- 
ville  and  Chattanooga. 

Moderate  Expenses. — Board  in  the  New  Metnorial  Ball,  lighted  by  gas  and 
heated  by  steam — an  elegant,  comfortable  home — Siio  per  aniuim  lor  everything  except 
washing,  and  in  the  best  families  from  S3  to  S'l:  per  Week.  Total  necessary  expenses  for 
the  ten  months,  from  S'S"  to  $210. 

For  full  information  and  catalogue,  apply  to 

L.  H.  BLANTON,  D.D.,  Chancellor. 

E.  B.  NUGEHT,  LouisYille,  Kj., 

DEALER   IN 

Rich  Silks,  importeil  Rich  Dress  Goods,  Fasliioiiftble  Wraps,  Made  Dresses,  Parasols, 
Ladies'  Funiisning  Goods,  Gloves,  Hosiery,  Sillc  Underwear,  Ladies'  elegantly  made 
Muslin  Undergarments,  Corsets,  Laces,  iSmbroidcries,  Ribbons,  Notions  of  every 
Kind,  Dress  Trimmings,  Linens  in  all  Widths,  Table  Linens,  Napkins,  Towels,  Do- 
mestics, Wliite  Goods  of  every  Kind,  Cloths,  etc. 
~^^~^  Gentlemen's  Furnishing  Goods  at  low  prices. 


OUR  DRESS  MAKING  DEPARTMENT. 

We  make  Bridal  Dresses,  Party  Drosses,  Mourning  Dresses,  Traveling  Dresses,  etc., 
and  we  warrant  a  perfect  tit  and  style,  at  moderate  prices.  Will  send  samples  and 
card  for  self-measurement  by  mail,  and  give  estimates  on  Dresses,  etc. 

Remember — All  correspondence,  orders,  and  money  orders,  should  be  addressed 
to  E.  B.  NUGfc;NT,  Louisville,  Ky.    Established  in  Louisville  thirty-five  years. 

We  ship  goods  to  all  points  by  Express  and  Mail.  Domestic  Paper  Fashions  for 
Sale.    Catalogue  free. 


4  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

The  possession  of  such  a  work  of  art  as  "Woman 
Triumphant,"  will  be  not  only  a  distinctive  landmark 
in  Lexington's  culture-sustaining  reputation,  but  will  do 
more  to  attract  the  admiring  gaze  of  the  world  than  all 
our  tine  horses  and  cattle  have  done  for  fifty  years. — 
Lexington  Observer. 

.BAMBERGER,  BLOOM  &   CO. 

WHOLESALE 


NOTIONS,  FURNISHING  AND  FANCY  GOODS,  BIG. 

Nos.  G44  to  650  Main  St.,  and  217,  219  Seventh,  St. 

„5  and  .17  Worth  St.^^  LOUISVILLE,    KY. 


W.  C.  KENDRICK.  G.   P.   KENDRICK. 

W.  KENDRICK'S   SONS, 

336  Fourth  Ave.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

RECEIVED  THE   MEDAL  AWARD   AT  THE   SOUTHERN    EXPOSITION  OF  1883,  FOR 


Our  stock  also  embraces  JEWELRY,  SILVER  WARE,  CLOCKS,  etc., 
of  every  description. 

Visitors  to  our  city  will  be  welcome  to  our  store,  and  receive  special  attention. 
Our  illustrated  Catalogue  sent  free  on  application. 

(Mention  the  Hart  Memorial  Pamphlet  in  sending  name.) 

j.  M.  ROBINSON.  GEO.  C.  NORTON.  G.    H.    MOURNING. 

J,  M,  ROBINSON  ^  €0* 

IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

DRY  GOODS,  NOTIONS,  ETC. 

537,  539  and  541  Main  Street,  Cor.  Sixth, 

4,"T'H"oK??ShT.  LOUISVILLE,  KY. 


ILSH,  TH[  TAILOR, 

232  room  m.  loiiis7ille,  nv, 

p.  S.-FINE  600DS  EX6LUSIVELY. 


^lainlifonl  §€t^l, 

LOUISVILLE,  KY. 
Cor.  Tenth  and   Broadway, 

J.  y.  WZLLAED,  Mnufiger. 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

"  We  m;iy  not  cease  loving  only  taught 

Holier  desiring; 
More  taitli,  more  patience, 
With  more  wisdom  fraught, 

Higher  aspiring." 


WRAMPELIEIER  &  CO. 


MANUFACTURERS    OF 


Stoi^es,  E>^^  to  B50  lE'OTJi^T'H  ^?L.""^E. 


Factory,  15ih  and  Duncan  Streets, 


jA&VmWJMA 


:t, 


Siii/crs  of  Hiff/i  Grade  Pianos  tvill  find  our  stock  the  most  cotnplete  in 
llie  countrij.     In   GR.INI),  UPRIGHT  OR  SQUAItlS  GltANJ)  PIANOS 

ire  can  please  the  most  fastiilons  tastes.  In  Jtloliiitn  or  Lotver  Priced 
Pianos,  ive  offer  floods  find  prii'es  that  defif  competition,  Eccrif  instrument 
fully  learranted.     Correspondence  solicited, 

D.  H.  BALDWIN  &  CO. 

158  W.  Fourth  St.,  236  Fourth  Ave.,  95,  97,  99  Penna  St., 

CINCINNATI,  LOUISVILLE,  INDIANAPOLIS. 

\VHOI,KSAI.K    AND    I'.ETAII-    11 1".  A  I,E  liS. 

ST  El /\t  WAY  &  SO/\tS,    DECKER  BROTHERS, 

HAI/\/ES.    J.  &  G.  FISOHtH.     VOSE, 

Al\lD  D.  H.  BALDWIN  &  CO..  PIANOS. 

Pianos  and  Organs  on  easy  monthly  payments. 


6 


iotet 


^3.00 
PER  JDJ^l^-. 

SPECIAL  RATES 

BY  THE 

WEEK  or  MONTH 


CENTRAL 
LOCATION. 

FIRST  CLASS 
ACCOIYIMODATION 


LOUISVILLE    HOTEL    COMPANY 


LOXJISA^ir^LE,  KY. 


J.  J.  B.  HILYARD,  President,        PHIL.  JUDGE,  Manager,  C.  H.  GIBSON,  Secretary. 


JOHN  BARBEE. 


JOHN.  B.  CASTLEMaN 


BARBEE  k  CASTLEMAN, 


e  J||aiiager^, 


504  MAIN  STREET,  LOUISVILLE,  KY. 

Controlling    over  $40,000,000    of    Fire    Capital,   and 
Operating  in  Ten  Southern  States. 

Agents  throughout  the  South.    Managers  of  the 

Royal  Insurance  Co.  and  London  and  Lancashire  Fire 

Insurance  Co.,  of  Liverpool. 


7 

SHARPE  &  MIDBLETON'S 

IS  THE  LARGEST  SOUTH  OF  THE  OHIO  RIVER, 

COVERS  32,000  SaiTARE  FT,  ON  THE  GROUND  FLOOR. 
Notice  a  few  of  the  Leading  Departments. 

CARPETS. 

The  lar^i^est  stock  in  the  city — Axminsters,  Moquette,  Velvets,  Wiltons,  Body 
Brussels,  Tapestry,  Brussels,  and  Ingrains.  Borders  to  match.  Rugs  of 
all  descriptions.   Our  Upholsterj'  department  is  unsurpassed. 

CLOAKS  AND  SUITS. 

This  department  contains  everything  in  Ladies'  Wearing  Apparel.  Ready- 
made  Dresses  from  $8.00  up.  Cloaks  in  Seal  Skin,  Silk,  and  Cloth  of 
every  description.  Over  3,000  garments  to  select  from.  Children's 
Cloaks  in  great  varietJ^  Ladies'  Muslin  Underwear  a  specialty  of  this 
department. 

SILKS  AND  DRESS  GOODS. 

Don't  fail  to  see  our  immense  stock  of  Silks.  No  matter  what  you  want, 
3'ou  can  find  something  to  suit  you,  our  varietj^  is  so  great.  Our  Dress 
goods  are  bej'ond  description.  You  will  find  Dress  goods  from  ten  cents 
per  yard  up  to  the  finest. 

DRESS  MAKING. 

You  can  have  a  dress  made  in  24  hours  after  leaving  the  order.  Our  prices 
are  reasonable  and  the  styles  are  alwaj-s  the  latest.  Our  modistes  go 
to  Paris  every  year.  This  department  has  grown  to  be  one  of  the  largest 
in  the  United  States. 

FANCY  GOODS. 

Kid  Glovk.s  of  every  description  fitted  to  the  hand. 
Hosiery — The  largest  stock  in  the  city. 

Dress  Trimmings — All  the  new  things  from  Paris. 
Embroideries,  Laces,  Handkerchiefs. 

Neck  Wear  of  every  description. 

Ribbons  in  all  tiie  new  shades. 
SHOE    DEPAETMENT. 
Ladies'  Fine  Shoes  a  Specialty. 

i<^-Er\Kr  -^oi^i^  STOi^E, 

335  and  337  4th  Ave.,  and  335  to  341  W.  Jefferson  St. 


FOUR  DEPARTMENTS, 

All  filled  to  completion,  and  prices  guaranteed  to  be 
as  lo-w  as  same  class  of  goods  can  be  bought  anywhere 
in  the  South-west,  on  day  of  sale,  and  then  we  refund 
money  on  purchases  made,  that  prove  unsatisfactory 
after  inspection  at  home. 

MEN'S  READY-MADE  DEBABTMENT. 
We  offer  here  a  character  of  goods  suitable  for  all 
classes   of  people.     These   goods   are   cut   right,    made 
honestly,  and  fit  fashionably. 

BOY'S  BEADY-MADE  DEPABTMENT. 

This  department,  filled  with  beautiful  kilt  suits, 
plaited  suits,  long  pant  suits,  and  shirt  w^aists,  is  located 
on  the  second  floor  of  our  establishment,  and  reached 
by  handsome  elevator;  attached  to  this  department 
are  reception  and  toilet  rooms  for  ladies  and  children, 
with  waiting  maid  constantly  in  attendance.  The 
finest  children's   department  in  the  Southern   country. 

MEN'S   TAILOBING   DEPABTMENT. 

In  this  department  w^e  do  nothing  but  strictly  first 
class  w^ork.  The  products  of  the  choicest  looms  of  the 
great  factories  of  England,  Scotland,  France,  Germany, 
Austria,  and  the  East  are  found  on  our  counters,  and 
no  house  in  the  South-west  w^ill  show^  more  novelties 
than  ours. 

3IEN'S  FUBNISHING   DEPABTMENT. 

Our  stock  of  novelties  in  men's  underw^ear  and 
neckwear  is  unusually  select ;  of  staples  w^e  carry  an 
immense  line.  Full  lines  of  every  thing  needed  for  a 
gentleman's  toilet. 


BEPPEN'S  CLOTHING  HOUSE, 

Corner  Fourtli  Aveniie  and  IVtarket  Street, 
LOUISVILLE,  KY. 

THE  GREAT  RETAIL  CLOTHING  HOUSE  OF  THE  SOUTH-WEST. 


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A    MEMORIAL   TO   JOEL  T.   HART 


THE    KENTUCKY    SCULPTOR 
FROM 

THE  WOMEN   OF  THE    BLUE  GRASS 

SELECTED   AND   ARRANGED   BY 

ISSA  DESHA  BRECKINRIDGE 

A  N  D 

MARY  DESHA 


CINCINXATl 

Press  of  Robert  Clarke  &  Co 

1S84 


OFFICERS  OF  THE   H.  M.  A. 


OF    LEXINGTON    KENTUCKY. 


PRESIDENT. 

Mrs.  WM.  C.  P.  BRECKINRIDGE. 

VICE-  PMESIDENTS. 

Mrs.  ROSA  VERTNER  JEFFREY,  Mrs.  RICHARD  S.  SPURR. 

HECOMDINO  SECRETARY. 

Miss  CARRIE  LEWINSKIE. 


CORRESPONDING   SECRETARIES. 


Miss  MARY  DESHA, 
Mrs.  a.  E.  HENTON, 


Mrs.  J.  HULL  DAVIDSON, 
Miss  ANNA  DIDLAKE. 


Mrs.  M.  T.  SCOTT, 


TREASURERS. 


J.  WILL  SAYRE. 


BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS. 


Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 


W.  0.  Sweeney, 
W.  V.  Cromwell, 
Thomas  Mitchell, 
Mat.  Walton, 
Mary  Desha, 
J.  T.  Shelby, 
J.  O.  Hodges, 
Maria  B.  Hunt, 
J.  H.  Davidson, 
Ransom, 


Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 

Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 

Miss 
Miss 
Miss 
Mrs. 


A.  S.  Winston, 
Dr.  Coleman, 
L.  B.  Todd, 
T.  N.  Allen, 


Mrs. 
Mrs. 

Mrs. 
Mrs. 


Fletcher  Johnson,    Mrs. 
Anna  Didlake,  Mrs. 

Bessie  Frazier,        Miss 
Rosa  Johnson,  Mrs. 

Carrie  Lewinskie,    Mrs. 
W.  C.  P.  Breckinridge. 


Will  Milward, 
RoBT.  Bullock, 
E.  D.  Sayre, 
Ale.x.  Pierson, 
C.  H.  Morgan, 
Laura  Hawkins, 
Mary  Bullock, 
M.  T.  Scott, 
Sam  Clay, 


EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE. 

Mrs.  W.  0.   SWEENEY,  Chairman. 


Mrs.  a.  S.  Winston, 
Mrs.  Dr.  Coleman, 
Mrs.  L.  B.  Todd, 
Mrs.  Alex.  Pierson, 


Mrs.  Will  Milward, 
Mrs.  Rob.  Bullock, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Sayre, 
Mrs.  T.  N.  Allen, 


Mrs.  W.  V.  Cromwell, 
Mrs.  Thos,  Mitchell, 
Mrs.  Mat.  Walton, 
Mrs.W.  P.  C.  Breckinridge. 


MEMOIR  OF  JOEL  T.  HART. 


BY 

EDWARD   J.    m'dERMOTT. 


Kentucky  is,  in  many  respects,  a  noteworthy  State,  hav- 
ing a  striking  individuality  that  attracts  attention  and 
gives  promise  of  a  remarkable  future.  Her  soldiers,  ora- 
tors, and  fair  women,  her  rich  minerals,  fast  horses,  and 
dangerous,  but  exhilarating,  whiskies,  have  long  been  well 
known  and  highly  praised  ;  but  Kentuckians  can  not  boast 
much  of  their  achievements  in  the  line  arts.  The  number, 
skill,  and  influence  of  artists  here  are  gradually  increasing, 
and  a  few  painters  like  Brenner,  Botto,  and  Boyd,  have 
lately  done  some  very  valuable  work  with  their  brushes, 
but,  if  we  except  Jouett,  whose  portraits  are  very  fine,  Joel 
T.  Hart  is  the  only  Kentucky  artist  that  can  truly  be  called 
great.  He  has  had  no  superior  in  America,  and  is  well 
entitled  to  rank  among  the  few  eminent  sculptors  of  mod- 
ern times.  His  life  was  beautiful  in  its  simplicity  and  vir- 
tue, heart  and  mind  being  devoted  entirely  to  his  high 
calling.  His  only  aim  was  to  do  something  great,  and  to 
leave  an  honorable  name.  The  marble  was  his  chief  and 
best  medium  for  the  expression  of  his  strong  feelings  and 
his  exalted  ideas.  Through  his  living  works  he  hoped  to 
speak  to  the  men  and  women  of  future  times,  and  he  lived 
to  see  assured  the  fruition  of  that  bright  dream  and  trusted 
mainstay  of  his  long  life. 

Mr.  Hart  was  born  in  Clark  county  in  1810,  and  died  in 
Florence,  Italy,  in  1877.  His  remains  are  now  in  Florence, 
but  they  will  soon  be  removed  to  Kentucky,  the  legislature 
having  appropriated  twelve  hundred  dollars  for  that  pur- 

(13) 


14  MEMOIR    OF    JOEL    T.    HART. 

pose,  Oil  the  motion  of  the  Hon.  Thomas  G.  Stewart.     The 
sculptor's  parents  were   poor,  plain,   respectable  persons, 
that  bequeathed  him  no  petty  fortune  or  silly  family  pride, 
but  good  principles,  a  vigorous  mind,  and  a  true  heart. 
Men  of  his  stamp  do   not  usually  inherit  a  great  name; 
they  make  one.     Prosperity  and  social  rank  help  only  a 
mediocre  person ;  genius  needs  no  such  stilts.     Mr.  Hart 
went  to  school  only  three  months,  but,  by  persistent  effort, 
educated  himself,  and  toward  the  end  of  his  life  was  able 
to  write  some  creditable   poetry.     In  order  to  fit  himself 
for  his    art-work,  he    studied    anatomy,  with   success,  in 
Transylvania  University,  in  Lexington.     He  was  always 
frugal,  temperate,   laborious,  genial,  and   devoted  to  his 
friends.     Of  little  children  he  was  very  fond,  often  kissing 
them  on  the  street,  even  when  they  were  unknown  to  him. 
Everything  beautiful  or  innocent  touched  his  heart.     His 
figure  was  a  little  above  the  medium  size;  his  features  in- 
dicated a  strong  will  and  a  sunny  disposition,  but  he  was 
not  handsome.     A  full  beard  covered  his  face.     Though 
he  was  often  very  poor,  having  barely  the  necessaries  of 
life,  he  never  complained  or  sought  help.     As  long  as  he 
had  any  money  he  worked  on  his  ideal  pieces.     When  his 
little  store  was  exhausted  he   made  a  few  busts  for  his 
patrons,  and  on  the  profits  lived  while  he  turned   again 
with  new  zest  to  the  darling  creatures  of  his  imagination. 
In  early  youth  he  worked  as  a  stone-mason,  and  at  twenty 
began  to  carve  letters  on  tomb-stones  and  to  make  models 
in  a  marble  yard.     In  the  course  of  the  next  sixteen  years 
he  made  a  large   number  of  good  busts  of  such  men  as 
Andrew  Jackson,  Cassius  M.  Clay,  and  John  J.  Crittenden. 
In  1849  he  went  to  Florence,  Italy,  to  put  into  marble  his 
model  of  Clay's  statue  that  he  made  for  the  "  Ladies'  Clay 
Association,"  of  Richmond,  Virginia.     On  this  model  and 
statue  he  worked,  with  intermissions,  for  thirteen  years. 
In  the  beautiful  grounds  surrounding  Richmond's  capitol 
this  marble  likeness  of  the  orator  stood  for  years,  but,  hav- 
ing been  slightly  damaged  from  constant  exposure  to  the 
changes  in  the  atmosphere  and  to  the  mischievousness  of 


MEMOIR    OF    JOEL    T.    HART.  15 

boys,  it  has  been  placed  in  a  niche  in  the  rotunda  of  the 
capitol,  and  looks  down  upon  the  senators  and  representa- 
tives of  Virginia  as  they  pass  to  and  from  the  post  of  honor 
and  duty,  reminding  them  constantly,  I  hope,  that  a  public 
man  should  always  so  live  and  act  that  he  might,  with 
truth  and  propriety,  have  inscribed  upon  his  tomb  words 
like  those  that  adorn  the  sarcophagus  of  the  Sage  of  Ash- 
land: "I  can,  Avith  unshaken  confidence,  appeal  to  the 
Divine  Arbiter  for  the  truth  of  the  declaration  that  I  have 
been  influenced  by  no  impure  purpose,  no  personal  motive — 
have  sought  no  personal  aggrandizement,  but  that,  in  all 
my  public  acts,  I  have  had  a  sole  and  single  eye  and  a  warm, 
devoted  heart,  directed  and  dedicated  to  what,  in  my  best 
judgment,  I  believe  to  be  the  true  interests  of  my  country." 
In  1867  Mr.  Hart  completed  the  statue  of  Clay  now  in 
the  Court  House  of  Louisville.  I  do  not  believe  that  this 
work,  all  things  considered,  has  ever  been  surpassed.  Cer- 
tain it  is  that  no  existing  antique  statues  of  Demosthenes, 
Csesar,  or  Augustus  give  us  conceptions  of  them  so  true 
and  vivid  as  the  conception  we  get  of  Clay  from  this 
statue.  In  this  piece  of  marble  we  see  not  only  an  exact 
likeness  of  the  form  and  features  of  the  man,  but  the 
faithful  presentment  of  the  dignified,  lofty,  powerful  ora- 
tor, and  the  intellectual,  strong-willed  statesman.  Grace, 
majestic  force,  and  an  exalted  mind  are  at  once  apparent 
in  the  lineaments  of  the  face  and  in  the  pose  of  the  figure. 
He  stands  like  a  firmly-fixed  rock.  He  looks  like  a  great 
orator,  speaking  weighty,  stirring  words,  on  a  grand  occa- 
sion, to  a  vast  audience.  Mr.  Hart  was  excelled  by  none 
in  appreciation  of  Henry  Clay.  The  sculptor  had,  for 
years,  watched  and  studied  the  form,  the  conduct,  and  the 
achievements  of  the  statesman.  They  lived  side  by  side ; 
their  aims  were  high  and  glorious ;  their  ideas  ran  in  the 
same  lofty  channels;  the  one  genius  recognized  and  clung 
to  the  other.  Now  they  are  indissolubly  linked  together 
for  all  time,  aiding  each  other  in  the  race  for  immortality. 
Future  ages  will  remember  the  sculptor  through  the  orator, 
and  the  orator  through  the  sculptor. 


16  MEMOIR    OP    JOEL    T.    HART. 

Mr.  Hart's  other  important  works  are  a  fine  copy  of 
the  "Venus  cle  Medici;"  a  bust  called  "II  Penseroso," 
representing  a  handsome  woman  with  downcast  eyes ; 
"  The  Morning-glory,"  a  beautiful  little  child  holding 
a  morning-glory  in  one  hand,  and  her  scant  flower-filled 
gown  in  the  other ;  an  exquisite,  hand  resting  on  an 
outstretched  glove;  a  colossal  bronze  statue  of  Clay, 
made  for  New  Orleans;  and  "Woman  Triumphant,"  a 
group  that  I  shall  describe  at  length.  All  of  these 
are  great,  and  will  ever  be  highly  esteemed,  but  his  fame 
must  chiefly  rest  on  "Woman  Triumphant."  Of  this  he 
felt  assured,  and,  with  pleasure  and  confidence,  he  staked 
all  his  meed  of  praise  on  that  great  work,  making  it  the 
chief  effort  of  his  genius,  the  bright  dream  and  solace  of 
his  laborious  life.     It  may  be  fairly  called  a  poem  in  marble. 

Just  ten  years  ago,  while  in  that  beautiful  city  on  the 
Arno,  sweet  Florence,  I  made  a  visit  to  his  studio.  Though 
a  young  student  and  a  stranger,  I  was  welcome,  simply 
because  I  was  from  Kentucky.  To  his  native  State  and 
its  people  his  heart  was  always  devoted.  For  all  Ken- 
tuckians  he  had  a  lavish  fund  of  kindness  and  affection. 
It  is  fit,  therefore,  that  they  should  love  and  honor  him. 

On  that  beautiful  May  morning  in  1874  he  was  working 
cheerfully  and  zealously  in  his  plain,  unadorned  studio. 
Its  bare  floor,  scant  furniture,  and  confused  array  of  mod- 
els showed  how  little  the  artist  cared  for  comfort  or  os- 
tentation. In  fact,  the  place  was  not  inviting  to  visitors 
until  they  learned  to  know  the  genius  that  presided  there — 
until  they  felt  the  influence  of  the  great  intellect  and  the 
cheerful  heart  that  turned  this  somber  shop  into  a  sanctu- 
ary. On  a  bench  in  this  room  stood  several  models  of 
statues  of  Henry  Clay,  one  of  those  models  being  the 
original  of  that  fine,  living,  speaking  statue  that  has  stood 
in  the  Court  House  at  Louisville  since  1867. 

On  the  walls,  in  the  corners,  and  on  the  floor  were  a 
great  many  plaster  casts  of  hands,  arms,  feet,  and  legs. 
The  artist  wore  a  snioking-cap  and  a  big  apron.  In  his 
hand  he  held  an  instrument  very  like  a  putty-knife.     In 


IL   PENSEROSO. 


MEMOIR    OF    JOEL    T.    HAllT. 


19 


the  middle  of  the  floor,  on  a  revolving  pedestal,  stood  two 
figures  in  clay,  one  Venus  and  the  other  Cupid.  The 
patient,  thoughtful  artist  was  continually  scanning  and  re- 
modeling these  figures. 

This  was  his  great  life  effort — the  dream  and  hope  of  his 
manhood.  He  was  striving  to  reach  perfection  in  this 
work,  that  it  might  be  an  enduring  monument  of  his  fame. 
The  Venus,  a  beautiful  woman,  held  in  her  hand  an  arrow, 
the  last  that  came  from  Cupid's  bow.  All  the  rest  of  his 
quiver  lay  broken  at  her  feet.  This  last  one  she  had  taken, 
and  now  held  it  above  him,  far  beyond  his  grasp.  On  tip- 
toe,  pleadingly,  he  stretched  forth  his  hand  for  his  weapon, 
hoping  for  one  more  chance  to  reach  her  heart,  which  was 
impregnable  to  force,  but  might  be  gained  by  entreaty. 

These  figures  were  in  soft  clay,  and  the  sculptor  was 
continually  adding  a  little  bit  here,  and  shaving  away  the 
least  bit  there,  with  the  utmost  care  and  nicety,  meanwhile 
revolving  the  pedestal  about  from  side  to  side,  and  viewing 
his  beloved  creatures  from  every  possible  point  of  view. 
In  a  few  weeks,  or  in  a  few  months  at  the  most,  he  hoped 
to  have  his  model  complete  and  ready  to  be  copied  in  mar- 
ble ;  but,  in  fact,  many  months  passed  before  he  felt  sure 
that  his  task  was  done.  Then  the  figures  of  perishable 
clay  were  turned  into  statues  of  imperishable  marble.  To 
see  the  enthusiasm  of  this  old,  gray-haired  man  as  he 
gazed  lovingh'  on  his  artistic  creation — the  fit  embodiment 
of  a  fine  conception — was  a  rare  pleasure,  making  one 
realize  how  great  is  art,  how  ennobling  its  influence,  and 
how  faithful  its  real  devotees. 

"  I  have  been  working  on  this  model  for  twelve  years," 
said  he.  "  The  idea  has  been  in  my  mind  even  longer 
than  that.  One  leg  of  this  woman  has  cost  me  more 
trouble,  thought,  and  labor  than  the  whole  of  Henry  Chiy's 
statue.  I  have  worked  and  toiled  to  make  my  model  per- 
fect in  design  and  execution — to  make  these  figures  aija- 
tomically  and  artistically  perfect.  I  have  had  more  than 
one  hundred  and  fifty  originals  to  study  from." 

"What  is  the  main  idea  you  wish  to  convey?"  I  asked. 


20  MEMOIR    OF    JOEL    T.    HART, 

"  This  Venus,"  said  he,  "  is  intended  to  represent  the 
highest  type  of  womanhood;  to  represent  a  woman  not 
only  faultless  and  beautiful  in  form,  but  full  of  mind,  of 
refined  intellect,  of  pure  but  strong  emotions.  The  Venus 
de  Medici  is  a  voluptuous,  sensuous  woman — the  embodi- 
ment of  physical  beauty  that  is  not  illumined  and  elevated 
by  intelligence.  My  Venus  has  been  assailed  by  Cupid, 
this  bright  fellow  on  tip-toe.  He  has  shot  all  his  arrows 
at  her  without  effect.-  All  but  one  lie  broken  at  her  feet; 
that  last  one  she  holds  aloft  above  him.  On  tip-toe  he  vainly 
tries  to  reach  it,  and  is  begging  for  its  return.  Force  has 
thus  far  failed,  and  he  must  plead  for  his  last  dart,  now  his 
only  means  of  reaching  her  heart.  Woman  must  be 
wooed,  not  conquered.     That  is  the  moral  of  it." 

This  being  the  sculptor's  explanation  of  his  conception 
and  its  representation,  I  could  never  understand  why  the 
work  has  sometimes  been  called  the  "  Triumph  of  Chas- 
tity."    Such  a  name  is  unsatisfactory,  for  many  reasons. 

"  I  see  you  have  a  good  many  plaster  casts  of  limbs  here, 
Mr.  Hart,"  said  I,  pointing  to  those  hanging  on  the  walls 
and  lying  about  the  floor  of  the  studio. 

"Yes,  I  am  making  them  all  the  time.  It  is  very  hard 
to  find  good  models  among  women,  for  their  forms  are 
usually  ruined  by  the  vicious  customs  of  pinching  and 
squeezing,  and  tightly  binding  what  nature  intended  to  be 
free.  I  knew  one  lady  here  who  would  have  made  a  good 
model  had  she  not  injured  her  figure  by  kneeling  too 
much  at  prayers.  The  peasants,  whose  figures  have  never 
been  injured  by  any  artificial  restraints,  are  our  best 
models."  ♦ 

"But  don't  you  have  trouble  in  getting  these  models'?" 
I  asked. 

"ISTo,  not  much;  some  ladies,  with  the  consent  and  in 
the  presence  of  their  parents,  will,  for  the  sake  of  art  and 
to  gratify  their  vanity,  allow  us  to  make  plaster  casts  of 
them." 

"What  is  this  strange  apparatus  like  a  mask,  with  all 
these  big  blunt  needles  pointing  inward  ?" 


MEMOIR    OF    JOEL    T.    HART.  21 

"  That  is  an  instrument  I  invented  to  measure  faces  for 
busts.  By  it  I  can  get  the  exact  outline  of  the  head,  and 
reproduce  the  features  of  the  face  exactly,  and  in  one-third 
of  the  time  used  by  a  sculptor  that  has  no  such  measure  ; 
but  I  can  not  patent  and  sell  my  invention  here,  for  the 
Italians  are  opposed  to  labor-saving  machines  that  tend  to 
throw  any  workmen  out  of  employment  for  even  the 
shortest  time." 

Thus  the  great  sculptor  chatted  and  worked  in  his  clieer- 
ful  vein.  He  told  me  that  he  was  once  offered  $20,000  for 
"Woman  Triumphant;"  but  he  was  not  then  ready  to  let 
the  work  pass  from  him,  feeling  that  it  was  not  so  nearly 
perfect  as  he  could  make  it.  When  urged  one  day  to  make 
an  end  of  his  effort,  he  replied :  "  The  Almighty  does  not 
see  fit  to  make  a  perfect  woman  in  less  than  eighteen  years, 
and  can  I  hope  to  make  a  perfect  model  in  less?"  This 
sculptor  was  working  for  fame  and  posterity  :  what  cared 
he  for  money? 

By  many  competent  critics  this  group  has  been  es- 
teemed the  greatest  piece  of  sculpture  wrought  in  marble 
since  Michael  Angelo  chiseled  his  immortal  Moses.  The 
art  correspondent  of  the  London  Athenaeum  once  said  that 
it  was  the  finest  work  in  existence.  Joel  T.  Hart  was 
undoubtedly  a  great  sculptor.  His  genius  has  not  only 
embodied  in  imperishable  marble,  for  future  generations, 
the  likenesses  of  our  greatest  statesmen  and  soldiers ;  it 
has  not  onl}'  raised  him  from  the  calling  of  a  common  stone- 
cutter to  the  lofty  station  of  a  great  and  justly  famous 
sculptor,  but  it  has  also  exalted  his  State,  has  raised  her 
in  the  esteem  of  the  world,  and  has  set  before  her  children 
a  splendid  example  of  perseverance,  virtue,  and  self-help. 

Who  can  estimate  what  we  owe  such  a  man?  Who  can 
say  what  value  should  be  set  upon  his  fruitful  life  ?  Our  ad- 
miration and  gratitude  are  due  less  to  our  rich  men  than 
to  the  patient,  modest,  toiling  workers  like  Hart,  who  im- 
prove our  minds  and  reform  our  hearts.  Wealth  is  useful 
in  many  ways  to  persons  and  to  governments,  but  great 
wealth  is  not  the  greatest  good. 


22  MEMOIR    OF    JOEL    T.    HART. 

What  became  of  the  riches  of  Rome  and  the  Italian 
republics?  What  have  the  Homans  and  the  Greeks  left 
us  but  their  literature  and  their  sculpture?  The  great 
granaries,  the  splendid  roads  and  aqueducts,  the  Parthe- 
non and  the  Coliseum,  the  victorious  armies  and  navies — 
where  are  they  ?  In  the  dust.  But  Homer  and  Virgil,  the 
Apollo  Belvedere  and  the  Yenus  de  Milo  still  live.  They 
were  filled  with  the  divine  afflatus,  and,  breathing  the 
breath  of  an  immortal  life,  shall  speak  to  all  civilized  na- 
tions for  all  time. 

Riches  and  the  luxuries  and  comforts  of  life  are  well 
enough  in  their  way,  but  a  refined  taste,  a  cultivated  in- 
tellect, and  a  noble  heart  are  infinitely  more  precious  to 
the  individual  and  to  the  State.  The  man  whose  sole  aim 
is  money-making  is  necessarily  a  bad  citizen  and  a  bad 
member  of  society.  He  is  not  capable  of  patriotism,  love, 
friendship,  or  any  other  exalted  feeling.  But  the  man  that 
can  content  himself,  like  Hart,  with  a  frugal,  simple  life,  in 
order  that  he  may  devote  himself  to  culture,  art,  and  fame, 
is  a  citizen  worth  honoring.  His  work  betters  and  pleases 
mankind.  A  selfish  man  is  necessarily  a  mean  man,  whose 
labors  we  can  easily  spare.  The  physical  i:)ains  and  the 
mental  anxieties  of  life  make  it  hard  enough  at  the  best; 
but  half,  if  not  all,  of  its  sweetest  solace  and  greatest  joys 
are  lost  if  its  patliway  is  not  strewn  with  the  flowers  of 
fancy — if  the  books,  and  paintings,  and  statues  are  not 
there  to  gladden  the  wearied  mind  and  heart  of  the  oft- 
despairing  wayfarer. 

As  Plato  said,  in  his  plea  for  an  Ideal  Republic:  "Let 
our  artists  rather  be  those  who  are  gifted  to  discern  the 
true  nature  of  beauty  and  grace.  Then  will  our  youth 
dwell  in  a  land  of  health,  amid  fair  sights  and  sounds ;  and 
beauty,  the  effluence  of  fair  works,  will  visit  the  eye  and 
ear  like  a  healthful  breeze  from  a  purer  region,  and  insen- 
sibly draw  the  soul,  even  in  childhood,  into  harmony  with 
the  beauty  of  reason." 

The  career  of  Joel  T.  Hart  is  full  of  useful  lessons,  teach- 
ing our  young  men  that  art  is  noble  and  fame  is  sweet ;  that 


MEMOIR    OF    JOEL    T.  HART.  23 

self-denial  and  self-help  may  raise  a  person  of  talents  from 
the  humblest  to  the  highest  station  ;  that  honors  may  be 
won  and  distinction  attained  outside  the  crowded,  stifling 
road  of  money-getters  or  the  dangerous  arena  where  politi- 
cal gladiators  often  raise  themselves,  by  questionable  means, 
to  a  bad  eminence. 

Mr.  Hart's  copy  of  the  Venus  de  Medici,  the  Morning- 
glory,  and  his  own  bust  by  Saul,  his  pupil,  are  in  the  art- 
room  of  the  Louisville  Polytechnic  Library.  The  beau- 
tiful hand,  already  mentioned,  belongs  to  Mr.  Hart's  life- 
long friend,  Mr.  John  S.  Wilson,  of  Pee- Wee  Valley, 
Kentucky.  II  Penseroso  and  A^oman  Triumphant,  will 
hereafter  adorn  the  public  art-room  which  is  soon  to  be 
opened  in  Lexington. 

It  is  fit  that  Woman  Triumphant  should  become  an  heir- 
loom of  Lexington  ;  for  there  Hart  dreamed  his  dream  and 
loved  his  Beauty,  and  there  his  work  should  stand.  Though 
an  ardent  lover  of  woman — though  she  was  his  highest 
ideal  in  life,  and  the  chief  object  of  his  dreams  and  reve- 
ries— he  never  married.  Poets,  painters,  and  sculptors 
usually  idealize  and  glorify  her;  but,  while  she  likes  this 
tribute  and  admires  persons  that  thus  exalt  her,  yet,  in 
matrimony,  she  rather  prefers  a  man  with  less  genius  and 
more  style.     Chaucer  long  ago  said  : 

"  A  man  must  neerles  love,  maugie  his  head, 
lie  can  not  flee  it,  though  he  should  be  dead." 

Mr.  Hart  did  not  think  this  true  of  woman.  To  use  his 
own  words,  "Woman  must  be  wooed,  not  conquered."  If. 
we  went  downi  deep  into  his  heart, probably  we  should  find 
that  he  also  tliought  her  sometimes  impregnable  to  woo- 
ing, and  sometimes  al)]e  to  snap  easily  the  strongest  bands 
of  Cupid. 

While  he  was  in  Lexington,  he  loved  a  most  beautiful 
girl,  Miss  Mary  Smithers.  They  were  for  a  time  engaged  ; 
but  his  poverty  forbidding  an  immediate  marriage,  he  had 
to  leave  her  when  he  went  to  Italy  to  complete  his  studies 
and  to  finish  his  statue  of  Clay  for  Richmond,  Virginia. 


24  MEMOIR    OF    JOEL    T.    HART. 

While  he  was  at  work  in  Italy,  she  married  a  student  of 
medicine  in  Lexington,  and,  after  his  death,  and  about 
eight  years  ago,  she  married  an  old  lover,  a  rival  of  Hart's 
in  Lexington  in  the  olden  time,  and  now  a  prosperous 
physician  in  Alabama.  She  still  lives  to  tell,  with  pride, 
the  story  of  her  courtship  with  the  great  sculptor.  He  has, 
it  is  said,  made  his  Beauty  the  likeness  of  this  long-loved 
and  greatly  admired  sweetheart.  In  the  days  and  nights 
of  his  toil  and  dreaming,  she  was  to  his  mind's  eye  ever 
present  in  all  her  loveliness.  He  has  idealized  her,  and 
made  her  the  embodiment  of  his  loftiest  conception.  If  he 
could  not  marry  her,  he  could  love  her;  if  he  could  not 
have  her  in  the  flesh,  he  could  have  her  in  the  pure,  un-' 
changing  marble,  and  he  could  make  the  world  admire 
her  as  he  had  admired  her  in  all  the  freshness  and  vigor 
of   his  youth.     Schiller  has  well   described  love's  magic 

power: 

Selig  durch  die  Liebe 
Getter — durch  die  Liebe, 

Menschen  Gottern  gleich  ! 
Liebe  macht  den  riimmel 
Himmlischer — die  Erde 

Zu  dem  Hinimelreich. 

Mr.  Hart  wrote  several  poems  to  this  lady,  greatly  prais- 
ing her  charms,  and  assuring  her  of  his  lasting  love.  In 
one  of  them,  styled  "To  Mary  on  Parting,"  he  says: 

"  1  '11  think  of  thee  though  mountains  rise, 
And  oceans  wild  between  us  roll; 
I'll  steal  thine  image  from  the  skies, 
And  stamp  it  on  my  soul." 

Even  when  he  was  forty-nine  years  old,  he  still  clung 
fondly  to  her  memory.  In  June,  1859,  in  Florence,  he 
wrote  a  poem  on  the  back  of  her  picture,  calling  her  the 
"sweetest  rose  in  early  spring's  sweet  day,"  and  lamenting 
that  he  had  lost  her,  and  that  the  spring-time  of  life  had 
passed  away.  I*^o  cold,  unsentimental  man  could  ever 
be  a  great  artist.  Poetic  fire  and  strong  emotions  thrill 
the  frames  and  quicken  the  minds  of  men  like  Burns  and 


MEMOIR   OF   JOEL    T.  HART.  25 

Keats  and  Hart,  inspiring  divine  thoughts  and  suggesting 
the  sweetest  words  that  lips  ever  utter. 

The  ladies  of  the  Blue  Grass  Region,  who  have,  by  a 
splendid  effort,  raised  the  money  to  buy  "Woman  Tri- 
umphant deserve  the  highest  praise.  As  Hart  honored 
them,  so  have  they  honored  him.  By  their  energy  and 
toil  they  have  helped  to  fill  up  the  full  measure  of  his 
fame,  and  have  heightened  the  luster  of  their  State. 

The  sculptors  of  a  country  greatly  help  to  glorify  and 
preserve  the  memory  of  its  great  men.  The  range  of 
sculpture  is  much  more  limited  than  that  of  painting,  but 
the  works  of  the  chisel  last  for  ages,  while  the  glorious 
things  accomplished  by  the  brush  of  a  Titians,  a  Rubens, 
or  a  Turner,  soon  fade  and  in  a  few  centuries  perish  ut- 
terly. Though  the  antique  frescoes  of  Rome  and  Pompeii, 
discovered  after  centuries  of  oblivion,  bear  testimony  to 
the  skill  of  the  painters  of  the  early  days  of  the  Empire, 
still  we  must  rely  upon  the  sculptors  of  Greece  and  Italy 
for  faithful  likenesses  of  Socrates  and  Alexander,  Cicero 
and  Csesar,  and  many  other  important  historical  person- 
ages. 

Even  the  Last  Supper  of  Da  Vinci  and  the  Last  Judg- 
ment of  Michael  Angelo  are  fading  away  from  the  walls 
made  holy  by  their  glorious  beauty  and  divine  mission; 
but  the  god-like  Moses  and  "  la  Pieta,"  the  Mourning 
Mary  with  her  dead  son  in  her  lap,  are  still  as  perfect  as 
when  they  felt  the  last  touch  of  the  chisel,  and,  in  all 
probability,  will  be  preserved  for  many  thousand  years. 
Joel  T.  Hart's  works  also  may  be  immortal,  and,  in  future 
ages,  may  be  the  only  testimonials  that  Kentucky  can 
offer  to  show  her  early  culture  and  the  fine  make  of  her 
first  citizens. 


26  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 


A    SKETCH 


THE  HART  MEMORIAL  ASSOCIATION. 


BY    ISSA    DESHA    BRECKINRIDGK. 


Through  a  series  of  curious  circumstances  it  entered  the 
heart  of  a  Kentucky  woman,  unused  to  efforts  of  a  public 
kind,  to  attempt  to  raise  the  fund  necessary  to  place  a 
memorial  to  Joel  T.  Hart,  in  the  city  of  Lexington,  and 
with  a  fervor  born  of  earnest  faith  she  undertook  what  to 
many  seemed  a  hopeless  task.  Believing  as  she  did  that 
there  are  no  accidents  in  this  bright  world  of  ours,  and 
that  He  who  feeds  the  raven  and  clothes  the  lily  guides 
and  directs  the  humblest  of  His  creatures  in  the  smallest 
affairs  of  life,  she  had  reason  for  the  faith  within  her  heart. 

Finding  that  Messrs.  Tiffany  &  Co.,  of  Kew  York  City, 
owned  the  life  work  of  this  great  sculptor — "  Woman 
Triumphant" — and  this  being  considered  the  most  fitting 
memorial  that  could  be  placed  to  him,  they  were  applied 
to  with  a  view  of  knowing  for  what  price  it  could  be 
obtained,  and  generously  responded  as  follows : 

Tiffany  &  Co., 

Union  Square. 

In  answer  to  Mrs.  B.'s  note  of  the  1st  inst.,  we  beg  to  say,  as  we  have 
before  stated,  that  we  have  made  but  one  serious  attempt  to  sell  the 
statue,  as  we  think  it  suflficiently  attractive  in  our  establishment  to 
hold  it  for  its  merit;  but  the  object  named  now  seems  so  very  appro- 
priate that  we  would  gladly  assist  in  the  enterprise,  and  to  that  end 
will  name — for  this  purpose  alone — a  price  of  $5,000.  In"^event  of  non- 
purchase,  however,  these  figures  will  not  be  recognized  as  a  precedent, 
as  they  are  much  less  than  what  the  statue  was  held  at  by  Mr.  Hart 
— and  it  certainly  ought  to  be  worth  more  now — hence,  our  offer  is,  to 
a  certain  extent,  to  be  treated  confidentially. 

Very  respectfully, 

5th  April,  1884.  ■  Tiffany  &  Co. 

Gray. 


SKETCH    OF    THE    ASSOCIATION.  27 

Upon  a  call  to  fifty  ladies  to  meet  at  the  library  on  the 
afternoon  of  April  9th,  thirty  responded  ;  thirty  women, 
earnest  and  true,  who  felt  that  in  honoring  genius  they 
honor  their  Creator,  who  implanted  in  our  hearts  the  love 
of  the  beautiful  in  art  as  well  as  in  nature,  for  they  count 
this  to  be  grandly  true  : 

"  That  a  noble  deed  is  a  step  towai'd  God, 
Lifting  the  soul  from  the  common  sod 
To  a  purer  air  and  a  broader  view." 

Ignorant  of  parliamentary  rules,  and  knowing  almost 
nothing  of  organization,  they  declared  themselves  '■'■The 
Hart  Memorial  Association,"  and  each  woman  became  a 
solicitor,  intent  on  raising  the  largest  amount  possible. 
To  most  of  them  "  begging  "  was  novel  and  unpleasant, 
but  feeling  that  the  cause  was  worth  the  effort,  their  zeal 
increased  with  each  contribution. 

A  warm  interest  was  expressed,  as  well  as  much  adverse 
criticism.  To  the  generous  aid  of  the  Press  they  were  in- 
debted for  substantial  help. 

After  a  month's  work,  two  thousand  dollars  had  been 
conditionally  promised.  Weekly  meetings  were  held,  and 
many  joined  and  aided  in  the  work,  and  the  Association 
soon  numbered  several  hundred ;  for  every  one  who  gave 
a  kindly  word  was  welcomed  to  the  number  already  en- 
rolled, and  much  help  was  given  by  women  who  never 
appeared,  but  quietly  and  silently  aided  from  without. 

Believing  that  the  object  was  not  only  meritorious,  but 
one  in  which  the  public  ought  to  be  interested,  the  Asso- 
ciation determined  to  appeal  for  aid  to  the  State  of  Ken- 
tucky, the  county  of  Fayette,  and  the  city  of  Lexington. 
Under  the  leadership  of  Judge  James  H.  Mulligan,  the 
eloquent  representative  from  the  city  of  Lexington,  a  bill 
was  passed  by  the  House  of  Representatives,  donating  the 
sum  of  five  hundred  dollars,  which  bill,  in  spite  of  the 
exertions  of  Hon.  R.  A.  Spurr,  Senator  from  Fayette 
county,  was  rejected  by  the  Senate. 

The  appeal  to  the  Council  of  the  city  of  Lexington  was 


28  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

made  in  behalf  of  the  Association  by  Col.  Frank  "Waters, 
and  assurances  were  given  by  the  Council  that  if  necessary 
the  city  would  subscribe  to  the  fund. 

The  speeches  of  the  Hon.  James  H.  Mulligan  and  Col. 
Frank  Waters  are  preserved  by  their  publication  in  this 
memorial. 

On  the  20th  day  of  May,  the  Court  of  Claims  of  Fayette 
county  being  in  session,  the  ladies  made  a  personal  appeal 
to  them  for  aid.  Being  gallantly  aided  by  Capt.  Steve 
Sharpe  and  Col.  John  R.  Allen,  they  had  reason  to  hope 
their  appeal  would  not  be  in  vain.  'Squire  James  Jewell, 
made  a  motion  to  donate  one  thousand  dollars  to  the  Hart 
Memorial  Association,  and  being  seconded  by  'Squire  Wm. 
Jones,  the  vote  was  taken,  the  result  being  victory  to  the 
Association  by  a  majority  of  one.  The  delight  felt  was  too 
great  for  silence,  and  a  burst  of  applause  went  round,  but 
being  quickly  brought  to  order  by  the  gavel  of  the  Judge, 
the  vote  being  announced,  the  ladies  withdrew. 

Those  who  voted  for  the  appropriation  were  Justices  Fer- 
guson, Alford,  Jones,  Crenshaw,  Muir,  Saffrons,  Royalty, 
and  Jewell,  'Squire  Wasson  being  absent.  To  these  eight 
good  friends  the  women  of  the  Hart  Memorial  Association 
will  ever  feel  sincere  gratitude,  for  the  aid  given  by  them 
just  at  that  time  made  success  a  certainty,  they,  like 
many  others,  realizing  that  "nothing  succeeds  like, suc- 
cess," and  that  the  donations  amounted  to  much  more 
than  $1,000,  for  all  who  had  promised  conditionally  paid 
their  subscriptions  promptly,  and  many  who  had  not  given 
gave  willingly. 

On  May  29th  was  held  at  Woodland  Park  (generously 
donated  by  S.  P.  Gross)  "  The  Carnival  of  Nations."  This 
being  suggested  and  directed  by  Mrs.  Rosa  Vertner  Jef- 
frey, the  gifted  and  beautiful  Vice-President  from  the  city, 
was  the  most  brilliant  and  successful  aflair  ever  held  in 
Central  Kentucky.  As  aids  to  her  were  a  group  of  women 
"  chaste  as  the  icicle  that's  curded  by  the  frost  from  purest 
snow,"  presenting  an  array  of  loveliness,  intellect,  beauty, 
energy,  enterprise,  and  good  sense  that  any  queen  might 


SKETCH    OF    THE    ASSOCIATION.  29 

envy.  These  were  Miss  Desha,  Mrs.  Sam.  Clay,  Mrs.  Mary 
Justice,  Mrs.  T.  B.  Ballard,  Mrs.  Ed.  Deloug,  Mrs.  Avery 
Winston,  Miss  Didlake,  Mrs.  Loevenhart,  Mrs.  R.  A. 
Spurr,  the  Vice-President,  from  the  county,  Mrs.  Wool- 
ridge,  Mrs.  Henton,  Mrs.  Hart,  Mrs.  Tom.  Allen,  Miss 
Totten,  Mrs.  J.  T.  Shelby,  Mrs.  Charlton  Morgan.  Mrs. 
Bewlay,  Mrs.  Saffrons,  Mrs.  Hodges,  Mrs.  Mat.  Walton, 
Mrs.  Bright,  Mrs.  Will  Milward,  and  a  bevy  of  young  girls, 
"immortal  Hebes,  fresh  with  bloom  divine." 

The  reward  of  their  labors  was  $1,000,  and  had  the  space 
been  sufficient  doable  that  amount  would  have  been  realized. 

This  brilliant  aiid  successful  affiiir  expressed  in  many 
ways  the  interest  felt  in  the  Hart  Memorial  Association  by 
the  citizens  of  town  and  county.  Contributions  were 
given  without  stint,  and  aid  from  the  contractors  and 
builders,  F.  Bush  &  Son,  H.  C.  Calvert,  William  Farley, 
AYilliamson  &  Bro.,  and  their  obliging  employees,  was  both 
substantial  and  generous. 

All  now  seemed  fair  and  hopeful,  and  on  the  9th  of 
June,  just  two  mouths  to  a  day  from  the  organization,  the 
faithful  and  competent  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee, Mrs.  W.  O.  Sweeney,  sent  to  Tiffany  &  Co.  a  check 
for  $4,500. 

The  generosity  and  kindly  encouragement  given  the 
Association  by  this  firm  will  ever  be  remembered.  To  the 
women  of  the  Blue  Grass  the  name  Tiffany  &  Co.,  of  Union 
Square,  is  surety  of  courtesy  and  liberality. 

By  earnest  effort  and  kindly  interest  the  few  dollars 
that  remained  to  be  raised  were  soon  contributed,  and  now, 
having  the  sum  necessary  to  pay  for  the  statue,  the  women 
of  the  Hart  3Ieriiorial  Association  will  form  themselves  into 
a  permanent  and  incorporated  Art  and  Library  Association, 
and  in  honor  of  Joel  T.  Hart  will  call  it  the  '■'■Hart  Memo- 
rial Art  and  Library  Associaiion"  and  they  will  endeavor  to 
place  the  statue  that  "  enchants  the  world,"'  Woman  Tri- 
umphant, in  a  room  with  such  surroundings  as  will  be 
worthy  of  so  rare  a  gem. 

It  was  not  until  the  statue  was  being  packed  for  ship- 


30  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

ment  that  photographs  of  it  were  received,  and  on  the  base 
were  found  the  words,  "  Woman  Triumphant" — precious 
words,  almost  prophetic  to  hopeful  hearts,  who,  having 
already  triumphed  over  much,  are  determined  to  persevere 
to  greater  things,  knowing  that  while  men  are  brave,  gen- 
erous, and  knightly,  as  they  are  and  have  ever  been  in  our 
dear  old  State,  true  womanhood  will  have  their  genero-us 
aid. 

It  is  the  hope  of  the  women  who  are  making  this  effort 
that  the  art  room  and  library  shall,  in  time,  contain  lives, 
portraits,  or  busts  of  those  whom  all  delight  to  honor  : 
Our  immortal  Clay,  the  elder  John  Bi'eckin ridge,  Barry, 
Hanson,  Hunt,  the  Kinkeads,  the  loved  John  B.  Huston, 
Richard  A.  Buckner,  James  0.  Harrison,  M.  C.  Johnson, 
and  that  bright  array  of  others,  like  unto  these,  of  whom 
Kentucky  may  well  be  proud — men  of  pure  lives,  mighty 
intellect,  lofty  patriotism,  unquestioned  courage,  matchless 
eloquence,  and  knightly  tenderness  !  Who  can  tell  what 
inspiration  these  memorials  may  be  to  the  sons  and  daugh- 
ters of  Kentucky  to  "  do  noble  things,  not  dream  them  all 
day  long,"  for 

"Sculptors  of  life  are  we  as  we  stand 
With  our  souls  uncai'ved  before  us. 
Watching  an  hour  when  at  God's  command 
Our  life  dream  passes  before  us. 

If  we  carve  it  then  on  a  shapeless  stone, 

With  many  a  sharp  incision, 
That  angel  dream  shall  be  our  own, 

Our  own  that  angel  vision." 

So,  in  after  years,  when  the  dust  of  Joel  T.  Hart  has 
mingled  with  that  of  his  own  native  State,  and  the  hearts 
that  have  so  earnestly  toiled  together  to  honor  genius  are 
asleep  under  the  waving  Blue  Grass,  Woman  Triumphant 
will  stand  not  onl}^  a  memorial  to  Kentucky's  gifted  son, 
but  to  her  daughters  a  self-constructed  monument,  in  its 
pure  perfection  typifying  their  own  chaste  souls  and  lasting 
gratitude ! 


WOMAN    TRIUMPHANT. 


AHTOryPE,    E.     DIERSTADT,N.     Y. 


"  WOMAN    TRIUMPHANT  "    IN   ART.  31 


THE  PLACE  IN  ART  OF  '^' WOMAN  TRIUMPHANT." 


BY  KTHELBERT  DUDLEY  WAKFIELD. 


Every  work  of  art  is  to  be  judged  by  a  double  staudurd. 
The  one  is  its  own  intrinsic  beauty;  its  own  vaUie  referred 
to  the  simplest  standard  of  aesthetics,  the  taste  of  the  in- 
dividual. To  many  this  is  the  only  consideration  of  any 
weight.  Indeed,  it  is  one  of  the  great  safe-guards  to  true 
art  that  personal  likes  and  dislikes  rule;  that  here,  as  in 
all  else,  the  dictum  of  the  people  is  all  powerful ;  there  is, 
and  can  be,  no  truer  criterion  of  worth.  That  narrow 
circle  that  hails  itself,  "  the  fit  audience,  though  few,"  the 
initiate,  and  by  many  other  self-consoling  terms,  is  too 
often  caught  by  tricks  and  mannerisms,  forgets  the  great 
dominant  [)rinciples  in  labored  interpretations,  loses  the 
complete  and  perfect  form  in  a  detail  of  the  drapery. 

The  judgment  of  every  such  coterie  is  proclaimed  with 
a  brazen  blare  only  to  be  recalled  and  condemned  by  an 
equally  infallil»le  successor.  But  there  is  a  dominant  note 
ruling  and  governing  in  the  mass  of  those  whose  hearts 
are  really  attuned  to  the  beautiful  in  nature,  and  a  noble 
work  never  fails  to  strike  that  responsive  chord.  It  was 
this  that  gave  the  impulse  which  lead  Joel  T.  Hart  to  give 
his  life  to  the  plastic  art ;  it  is  through  its  governance  that 
his  masterpiece  is  brought  to  adorn  his  native  land;  this 
it  is  which  secures  to  every  work  well  done  its  due  reward  ; 
this,  the  dominant's  persistence. 

But  consciously  or  unconsciously,  he  wrought  for  that 
other  end,  it  may  be  a  higher,  because  more  enduring. 
Tiiat  end,  a  step  in  the  progress  of  art.  Herein  lies  the 
other  side  of  every  work.     It  must  play  its  part  and  leave 


32  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

its  record  in  the  history  of  art.  As  the  artist's  life  is  dual 
— the  one  part  his  private  simple  life  of  living,  loving, 
known  only  to  those  about  him;  the  other,  that  different 
outer  life  lived  in  the  eyes  of  the  world,  or,  even  more,  in 
their  ears,  a  passionless  point  in  the  world's  progress — so 
are  these  two  sides  of  living,  striving,  and  of  simple  record 
of  fruition,  mirrored  in  his  work.  And  there  are  wide 
ranges  here  as  in  all  else.  Some  are  vessels  unto  honor, 
too  many  unto  dishonor.  It  is  largely  this  side  of  Hart's 
work  that  is  peculiarly  attractive — the  part  it  plays  in  the 
history  of  art,  a  part  both  worthy  and  instructive. 

All  art  in  its  highest  manifestations  has  be'en  the  out- 
come of  great  national  impulses.  Recall  the  great  struggles 
of  which  the  art  activity  of  Greece  was  the  reflex,  and 
that  strange  direct  movement  which  we  call  the  Renais- 
sance, and  it  is  at  once  patent.  In  the  process  of  develop- 
ment, however,  sculpture  so  outran  the  kindred  arts  that 
it  attained  its  highest  development  before  the  decline  of 
Greek  art.  Phidias  perfected  that  type  of  severe  but 
noble  beauty  which  raises  the  art  to  its  highest  level. 
The  later  school  of  Athens,  under  Scopas  and  Prax- 
iteles, if  it  departed  from  the  stern  grandeur  of  the 
early  time,  was.no  less  perfect  in  portraying  the  most 
beautiful  ideal  of  human  grace  and  beauty,  and  gave 
the  models  of  idealism  to  all  time.  So  portraiture 
reached  its  consummation  in  the  athletes  of  the  Argive 
school  of  Polycletus  and  Lysippus.  These  schools  were 
combined  and  blended,  but  never  excelled,  in  the  later 
Greek  schools,  especially  the  Rhodian,  and  in  the  Roman 
revival.  The  Renaissance,  with  all  its  wealth  of  genius, 
was  powerfully  affected  by  these  influences.  Many  of  the 
most  celebrated  works  of  that  period  were  wholly  inspired 
by  classic  models,  and  indeed,  rarely,  save  when  the  sphere 
was  purely  architectonic,  did  originality  appear.  Else- 
where, innumerable  tricks  of  treatment  and  vicious  man- 
nerisms prevailed.  Artists  sacrificed  the  perfect  flesh-like 
treatment  of  the  Greeks  to  a  display  of  anatomical  knowl- 


"WOMAN  triumphant"  in  art.  33 

edge,  a  display  that  could  not  but  be  fatal  to  smoothness 
and  symmetry. 

Correct  taste  brought  a  return  to  the  classical  models, 
but  the  vigor  of  mind,  the  stimulus  of  the  age  of  revival 
was  gone.  A  hollow  period  of  imitation  could  alone  suc- 
ceed. More  than  one  man  of  genius  appeared.  Men  like 
Canova  seemed  for  a  moment  to  rekindle  the  flame  of  pure 
art,  only  to  die  away  like  "  fire  from  off  a  brand  the  wind 
blows  over."  The  most  hopeful  indications,  the  most 
promising  originality,  languished  and  declined  for  lack  of 
outer  stimulus.  The  end  was  but  a  thorough  revival  of 
pure  taste ;  the  elevation  of  a  correct  school  of  criticism 
— able  to  see,  unable  to  reproduce;  and  a  faint  and  feeble 
classicism — the  form  without  the  substance. 

It  was  under  just  such  circumstances  that  Hart  was 
called  to  work  ;  it  was  no  more  to  be  expected  of  him  than 
of  his  compeers  that  he  would  produce  a  work  of  trans- 
cendent genius.  The  impulse,  the  power  that  produces 
such  consummate  works,  was  lacking.  l!To  artist  has  ever 
so  succeeded  who  was  not  one  of  the  more  aspiring  spirits 
of  a  great  uplifting.  Such  peaks  tower  not  above  the 
plain.  They  rise  as  crowning  summits  of  a  mighty  range. 
We  do  him  but  justice  to  say  it  was  not,  could  not  have 
been,  so.  Around  him  his  fellow-workers  wrought  well,  but 
under  the  prevailing  blight  of  imitation,  Powers  produced 
his  exquisite  "  Greek  Slave,"  which,  with  all  its  charm,  is  but 
a  reminiscence  of  a  by-gone  glory.  Hart  was  pervaded  with 
a  difi:erent  spirit.  His  ancestors  had  been  pioneers,  push- 
ing civilization  into  the  wilderness.  He,  too,  had  caught 
the  spirit  of  advance.  Moreover,  he  had  not  been  reared 
in  the  pent  air  of  the  schools ;  he  had  not  caught  their 
affectation,  not  even  their  conservatism,  scarcely  their  rev- 
erence for  the  antique.  His  was  an  education  from  within. 
Nature  had  done  her  own  work;  he  had  caught  his  ideas 
from  her.  It  was  this  that  gave  him  the  power,  single- 
handed,  to  strike  out  a  new  line  for  himself.  The  departure 
from  the  prevailing  type  which  he  made  was  bold.  When 
we  compare  the  proportions  of  the  principal  figure  in  this 


34  MEMORIAL    TO   JOEL    T.    HART. 

group  with  those  of  the  Yenus  of  the  Capitol  or  the 
Yeiius  de  Medici,  how  great  is  the  variance ! 

No  doubt  it  is  to  be  conceded  that  in  every  sphere  of  art 
there  has  ever  been  a  tendency  to  solve  self-set  problems. 
Scarcely  an  artist  but  has  wrought  at  them.  They  have 
been  the  means  of  revealing  the  manner  and  methods  of 
many  a  master,  and  as  such  held  peculiarly  precious.  But 
they  have  ever  been  within,  not  without,  the  peculiar 
sphere  of  the  artist's  art.  Exemplars  of  his  means.  Types 
of  his  art.  IlTot  departures  from  it.  This  work  strikes 
a  higher  note.  It  was  not  a  simple  problem  in  the  exist- 
ing scope  of  his  art.  It  was  a  conscious  effort  to  go  back 
to  first  principles,  to  set  forth  a  new  ideal,  to  body  forth  a 
strange  form.  This,  too,  in  so  rule-bound  an  art  as  sculp- 
ture. This,  in  the  face  of  the  reverence  due  that  scale  of 
proportions  wrought  out  with  such  infinite  pains  by  a 
people  most  skilled  in  handicraft,  most  subtle  in  apprecia- 
tion of  the  beautiful,  with  minds  and  hearts  that  gave 
back  note  for  note  to  any  touch  of  symmetry. 

Was  it  not  a  bold  thing  for  him,  who  had  been  born  in 
a  new  land  over  seas,  for  him,  but  an  humble  stone-mason, 
thus  to  brave  a  great  art's  most  fixed  principles?  And 
yet  was  it  not  a  right  thing,  a  true  thing?  Surely  it  was! 
In  that  man,  with  all  his  limitations,  there  was  an  inborn 
appreciation  of  art.  He  knew  well  that  servility  could 
have  no  place  therein.  He  did  not  fret  within  the  bonds 
that  were  irksome  to  him,  but  burst  their  trammels,  faced 
boldly  the  end,  and  to-day  it  is  for  men  to  judge  how  well 
or  how  ill  he  wrought.  Do  not  mistake  him.  He  recog- 
nized full  well  that  art  can  not  but  be  ideal.  If  true,  it 
must  be  not  only  instinct  with  life,  but  must  transcend 
nature,  combining  all  her  moods,  creating  one  ;  it  can  never 
be  merely  mimetic.  But  he  had  in  his  heart  another  type 
of  human  perfection  than  the  time-hallowed  one.  It  was 
not  necessary  to  think  it  higher,  to  hold  it  worthy  to  be 
glorified.  This  much  we  know,  it  is  our  type  of  feminine 
beauty,  and  he  was  of  us ;  he  was  for  us;  he  knew  nothing 
better  than  his  native  land. 


"  WOMAN    TRIUMPHANT  "    IN   ART.  35 

And  this  departure  from  the  prescribed  type  was  not 
wholly  unprecedented.  Fo.r  instance,  the  "  Dying  Glad- 
iator" exhibits  another  type  than  the  lithe  and  sinewy 
Greek.  The  larger-bodied  mold  of  the  Gaul  is  easily 
recognized,  as  it  is  in  many  of  the  works  after  the  inroad 
of  the  Gauls.  Should  not  then  he  who  had  learned  to 
love  the  form  that  had  been  held  up  before  him  as  beautiful 
in  life,  lovingly  embody  it  in  marble,  as  well  as  he  who  in 
the  hour  of  triumph  wrought  the  form  he  had  feared  so 
bitterly,  and  triuhiphed  over  with  such  a  burst  of  joy? 

These  are  the  factors  which  go  to  determine  the  place 
to  be  assigned  this  work  in  the  history  of  art,  and  it  will 
be  3  higher  than  its  simple  intrinsic  beauty  would  com- 
mand. In  a  word,  it  is  the  embodiment  of  the  ideal  of  one 
of  undoubted  talent.  That  ideal  a  radical  departure  from 
the  canons  of  antiquity,  based  not  on  mere  personal  idio- 
syncrasy, but  on  an  earnest  striving  to  show  that  there 
was  something  out  of  and  beyond  the  beaten  paths,  the 
well-worn  ruts,  that  was  worthy  to  be  embodied  in  the 
highest  art.  If  originality  be  worth  aught,  if  devotion  to 
a  cause  be  noble,  this  was  indeed  a  good  work.  It  was  at 
least  an  assertion  of  the  free  spirit  of  our  land,  and  as  such 
claims  our  tribute.  It  remains,  too,  telling  the  story  of 
past  endeavor,  beckoning  others  to  follow  the  same  path. 
It  may  not  be  vain  to  hope  that  some  successor  will  take 
up  the  work  where  Hart  laid  it  down,  making  this  but  the 
first  link  in  a  long  chain,  not  the  last.  Then,  indeed,  would 
its  place  be  a  high  one.  But  it  is  not  necessary  to  specu- 
late on  the  future.  It  is  only  for  us  to  recognize  that,  such 
as  it  is,  it  is  a  worthy  monument  of  a  worthy  man. 


36  MEMORIAL    TO   JOEL    T.  HART. 


KENTUCKY'S  FIRST  GREAT  ARTIST. 


The  ladies  of  Lexington  and  of  Fayette  county  have 
laid  under  obligation  every  friend  of  true  art  throughout 
the  State  by  their  praiseworthy  effort  to  bring  to  Ken- 
tucky the  last  work  and  masterpiece  of  her  one  great 
artist,  Joel  T.  Hart.  ISTor  is  the  work  unworthy  their 
generous  enthusiasm,  unless  the  judgment  of  the  best 
critics  greatly  misleads  us.  Its  subject,  "  Womanhood 
Triumphant,"  is  one  that  appeals  directly  to  the  noblest 
characteristics  of  human  nature.  Like  all  true  artists, 
Mr.  Hart  wrought  from  an  exalted  ideal.  To  represent 
the  beautiful  is  the  end  of  all  art.  By  means  of  marble, 
color,  sound,  language,  the  artist  strives  to  embody  in  sen- 
sible forms  his  conception  of  the  infinitely  beautiful.  And 
these  forms,  finite,  imperfect,  are  imperishable  only  when 
he  has  breathed  into  them  the  spirit  of  truth,  beauty,  and 
virtue.  While,  for  the  purpose  of  philosophical  precision, 
our  ideas  of  the  true,  the  beautiful,  the  good,  are  capable 
of  distinct  classification,  yet,  in  reality,  in  a  work  of  art, 
they  are  inseparable.  They  must  appear  conjointly  in  any 
representation  of  the  ideal.  Every  work  of  the  imagina- 
tion which  would  bear  upon  it  the  stamp  of  immortality 
must  pass  this  crucial  test;  it  must  be  beautiful,  and,  in 
order  to  this,  it  must  be  good,  it  must  be  true,  and  good 
and  true  for  all  times  and  for  all  peoples.  The  man  of 
genius  calls  nothing  into  being ;  he  gives  but  more  beau- 
tiful forms,  more  enduring  shapes  to  what  is  already  in 
the  minds  of  other  men.  The  great  man  is  he  who  mir- 
rors forth  what  is  passing  in  the  mind  of  his  country,  his 
age,  or  his  race.  It  is  through  him,  like  Bacon  in  science, 
like  Burke  in  political  philosophy,  like  Milton  and  Shakes- 
peare in  poetry,  that  the  race,  once  for  all,  proclaims  some 


Kentucky's  first  great  artist.  37 

great  truth,  or  utters,  in  forms  that  shall  never  die,  its 
hopes  and  fears,  its  aspirations  and  its  despairs.  May  we 
not  hope  that  what  has  been  done  for  woman  by  the 
painter,  the  poet,  has  been  done  for  her  once  more  by  Hart 
in  his  chosen  field,  sculpture?  The  task  set  himself  by 
our  artist  is  to  give  expression  to  humanity's  ideal  of  per- 
fect womanhood  —perfect  in  beauty,  in  grace,  and  in 
purity.  The  story  so  often  told  in  the  glowing  language 
of  verse  and  in  the  still  more  sensuous  language  of  color 
is  again  repeated  for  our  instruction  and  delight  in  the 
cold  chastity  of  marble.  "Womanhood  Triumphant"  is 
not  the  woman  of  Kentucky  only,  not  the  woman  of  the 
Nineteenth  Century  only;  but,  in  her  highest  estate,  the 
woman  of  all  countries  and  of  all  centuries. 

The  self-denying  labors  of  these  ladies  appeal  to  our 
pride  of  State  as  well.  Nature  has  been  bountiful  of  her 
gifts  to  Kentucky,  and  these  gifts,  by  industrial  enterprise, 
have  been  turned  to  good  account  in  many  ways.  Elo- 
quence, statesmanship,  the  law,  have  all  been  illustrated 
by  men  eminent  for  learning  and  genius.  Kentucky  has 
been  justly  famed  for  her  leaders  of  men.  Eloquence — that 
eloquence  which  moves  the  heart  and  subdues  the  will — 
has  found  few  brighter  examplers  than  have  been  fur- 
nished by  her  Menifees,  her  Marshalls,  and  her  Breckin- 
ridges.  Her  Clays  and  her  Crittendens  completely  vindi- 
cate her  claim  to  humane  and  comprehensive  statesman- 
ship. The  intellectual  and  moral  qualities  of  the  great 
judge — patience,  coolness,  moderation;  the  assured  learn- 
ing; the  reason  wlietted  to  its  keenest  edge  ;  the  penetrat- 
ing discernment  of  truth  amid  a  mass  of  conflicting  tes- 
timony; the  subtle  balancing  of  opposing  judgments,  and 
the  judicious  application  of  the  law  to  the  case  in  hand — 
these  qualities  are  to  be  found  in  their  supreme  excellence 
in  many  that  have  adorned  the  judicial  ermine  of  the 
State.  And  wherever  the  common  law  bears  sway,  the 
learned  maxims  of  her  Robertsons  and  her  Boyles  are 
quoted  with  approbation  and  make  part  of  the  treasure  of 
an    enlightened    and    discriminating   justice.      But    what 


38  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.  HART. 

Kentucky  has  done  to  exemplify  great  talents  at  the  bar, 
on  the  bench,  and  in  the  senate,  is  out  of  all  proportion  to 
what  she  has  done  in  literature  and  art.  Joel  T.  Hart 
stands  alone.  He  is  Kentucky's  one  great  artist.  Ken- 
tucky has  not  been  niggard  in  her  generous  recognition 
of  her  great  lawyers,  and  statesmen,  and  soldiers;  nor 
should  she  now  be  slow  to  acknowledge  her  gratitude  to 
one  of  her  sons  who  has  made  her  justly  renowned  in  one 
of  the  higher  walks  of  art.  Old,  poor,  in  declining  health, 
without  home — a  voluntary  exile  in  his  devotion  to  art — 
Joel  T.  Hart,  through  years  of  deprivation  and  toil,  must 
have  been  often  cheered  by  the  comforting  reflection  that 
he  was  engaged  upon  a  work  that  Kentucky  would  not 
willingly  let  die,  and  that,  by  his  genius,  he  was  adding 
something  to  the  sum  of  her  already  great  and  splendid 
fame. 


hart's  mother.  39 


HART'S  MOTHER. 


"In  all  the  notices  of  Mr.  Hart  that  have  appeared,  the 
fact  is  mentioned  that  his  education  began  rather  hite  in 
life,  and  was  due  entirely  to  his  own  energies.  In  some 
measure  this  is  true,  but  it  sliould  not  be  inferred  from 
this  fact  that  he  sprang  from  illiterate  stock.  His  grand- 
mother, "Lady  Tanner,"  as  she  used  to  be  called  through- 
out the  surrounding  country,  possessed  great  ability  as  Avell 
as  some  wealth.  His  mother,  Elizabeth  Tanner,  was  a 
woman  of  great  force  and  sweetness  of  character. 

"  Her  scruples  against  slavery  were  such  that  when  her 
share  of  her  mother's  estate  came  to  her  she  freed  all  the 
slaves,  thereb}^  reducing  herself  to  comparative  poverty." 

Tender  hearted,  big  brained,  patient  under  suffering, 
and  sunny  tempered  through  poverty  and  privation,  she 
was  just  the  type  of  woman  to  inspire  a  manly  boy  with 
faith  and  admiration.  From  the  time  little  Joel  could 
stand  alone  on  his  chubby,  bare  feet,  she  was  his  comrade 
and  confidante. 

It  was  at  her  knee  that  he  learned  his  lessons,  and 
whispered  into  her  sympathetic  ear,  after  a  day's  wander- 
ing, his  boyish  hopes  and  adventures,  or,  as  the  purple  twi- 
light shadows  fell  softly  on  the  surrounding  hills  of  Clark, 
he  heard  from  those  dear  mother  lips  stories  of  the  world's 
heroes;  of  brave  knights,  who  rode  forth  to  fight  for 
truth  and  purity;  wlio,  inspired  by  the  remembrance  of 
some  fair  flower-like  face,  rescued  distressed  damsels, 
conquered  mighty  dragons,  and  waged  war  on  all  evil 
things.  Here  he  heard,  for  the  first  time,  of  men  who, 
starting  from  lowly  places  in  life,  had,  tlirougli  their  lofty 
devotion  to  duty,  struggled  with  and  overcome  scorn, 
poverty,  and  indifference,  and  left  behind  them  the  price- 
less heritaire  of  a  noble  name. 


40  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

That  much  that  was  beautiful  in  Hart's  own  life  was  due 
to  these  twilight  talks  we  can  not  doubt.  There  never 
lived  a  man  of  nobler  aspirations  or  purer  life.  He  would 
have  made  a  worthy  knight  of  Arthur's  round  table. 
Most  certainly  he  followed  the  great  king's  advice  : 

"To  love  one  maiden  only,  cleave  to  her, 
And  worship  her  by  years  of  noble  deeds." 

If  it  had  not  been  for  that  love  which  forbade  his  ever 
forgetting  the  beautiful  sweetheart  of  his  boyish  days, 
he  possibly  would  never  have  given  to  the  world  his 
"  Woman  Triumphant."  But  while  we  owe  much  to  her 
beauty  and  his  constancy,  we  owe  still  more  to  the  teach- 
ings and  example  of  that  mother  who  so  lived  that  from 
her  boy's  earliest  youth  he  recognized  and  reverenced 
purity,  strength,  sweetness,  and  true  womanhood! 


A    KING,   YET    UNCROWNED,  41 


A  KING,  YET  UNCROWNED. 


THE  DEAD  SCULPTOR  OF  KENTUCKY,  JOEL  T.  II ART— A 
POOR  KENTUCKY  BOY,  WHOSE  GENIUS  RAISED  11 IM 
FROM  A  FENCE  BUILDER  TO  A   CREATOR  OF  IDEALS. 


Special  Correspondence  of  Tlie  News  Journal. 

Lexington,  Ky.,  May  7,  1884. 

Amid  the  noise  and  turmoil  of  life  occasionally  there 
comes  to  one  the  vision  of  a  "  white  ideal "  which  is 
unlike  any  thing  he  knows  in  his  daily  hurly-burly,  and 
only  fitted  for  his  contemplation  when  a  reposing  mind 
and  an  unruffled  soul  join,  and  the  inner  vision  does  not 
have  to  look  through  the  dust  of  labor  or  the  smoke  of 
battle.  As  I  sit  to-night,  more  than  half  weary  of  all  ex- 
istence, and  look  beyond  my  window^  at  the  pale  moon- 
light— with  a  slight  shiver  in  it,  quivering  on  the  new-born 
foliage  of  the  trees,  the  fresh  leaves  of  which,  damp  with 
dew,  are  stirring  in  the  night  wind — a  breath  of  the  ideal 
comes ;  and  though  it  is  not  free  from  sadness,  yet  it 
rests  me. 

The  ■warm  dreams  that  spring  brings  when  the  rosebuds 
open  and  the  lilacs  nod,  and  all  the  air  is  scented  with  the 
locust  bloom,  would  cast  a  shadow  on  the  chastened 
beauty  of  this  night.  The  tender  languors  that  are  so 
sweet  when  the  eyelids  droop  and  the  cheeks  flush,  and 
the  heart  beats  quick  and  fast,  but  falteringly,  would 
wither  in  the  cold  chill  beams  that  fall  upon  the  world 
from  out  a  sky  whereon  the  splendor  of  Diana  has  made 
eclipse  of  all  the  stars.  The  leaves,  the  rank  grass,  the 
very  atmosphere  itself,  newly  washed  by  weeping  showers, 
are  as  pure  as  the  light  of  heaven  that  falls  upon  them. 


42 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 


Ill  the  sky  no  cloud,  no  star;  upon  the  earth  no  speck,  no 
blemish.  It  is  such  a  night  as  could  alone  he  caught 
into  a  metaphor  in  marble;  pulseless  and  white  and  calm. 

And  there  is  a  type  of  womanhood  of  which  this  night 
is  but  a  symbol.  Perhaps  I  should  say  not  a  type  of 
womanhood,  but  a  phase  of  woman.  This  is  but  one  of 
all  the  changeful  aspects  of  the  year,  and  each  has  its 
beauty,  and  to  each  the  heart  responds.  But  woman,  in 
her  manysidedness,  is  like  a  universe  of  years,  wherein 
every  day  is  unlike  every  other  day,  and  the  same  day 
falls  on  jio  two  planets  with  like  luster.  Venus,  Juno, 
Astarte,  Proserpine,  Diana,  all  are  but  one  Isis  whose 
gleaming  veil  no  man's  hand  has  ever  altogether  lifted. 
There  is  in  all  womanhood  the  instinct  of  sweet  chastity — 
she  stands  beautiful,  but  severe,  with  maiden  body,  with 
virgin  soul,  fair  and  tender,  though  sacred,  barred  against 
all  passers  by,  shrined  above  profanation  ;  but  waiting, 
waiting  until  the  man  come  at  whose  most  gentle  touch 
the  seals  melt  off  the  fountains  of  her  heart  like  wax. 

This  idea  can  hardly  be  put  upon  the  canvas ;  this 
phase  of  womanhood,  fleeting  as  it  is,  must  be  caught  in 
imperishable  marble — marble  that  can  not  grow  warm 
with  color,  nor  throb  with  even  a  simulated  life.  Nor  in 
.poetry  can  the  well  modulated  verse  express  it,  for  the 
poet's  heart  grows  too  full  at  contemplation  of  the  loveli- 
ness himself  has  created. 

And,  thinking  on  these  things,  my  mind  recalls  the  rude 
stone-mason,  Joel  T.  Hart,  who  from  rugged  strength 
went  on  up  through  wisdom  to  the  highest  beauty.  He 
alone  seems  to  have  caught  the  inspiration  of  some  such 
night  as  this  even  in  the  warm,  heavy  balm  of  Italian 
breezes.  Perhaps  it  was  only  the  softened  recollection  of 
some  night  which  had  stilled  the  hot  blood  in  his  young 
heart  long  ago  as  he  looked  upon  the  May  moon,  shed- 
ding its  flood  of  silver  upon  the  half  melted  rime  that 
glittered  on  the  blue  grass.  In  those  days  he  built  stone 
fences  in  Clark  county,  but  a  few  miles  from  here.  When 
he  died  across  the  sea  he  had  completed  a  poem  in  marble 


A    KING,    YET    UNCROWNED.  43 

and  called  it  the  "  Triumph  of  Chastity."  T.hey  show  yet 
with  pride  in  his  old  home  a  stone  chimney  which  he  built, 
and  which  still  stands  there,  under  the  open  sky,  true  and 
firm  on  its  rugged  foundations,  as  honest,  as  immovable  as  his 
own  rugged  nature.  But  his  last  work  is  in  the  sliowroom 
of  Tifi:any  &  Co.,  in  New  York,  alone  in  its  serene  sim- 
plicity, with  a  background  of  crimson  curtains  and  the 
chamber  darkened,  that  its  white  loveliness  may  show 
fairer  by  the  contrast. 

This  poor  Kentucky  boy  by  iunate  manhood  made  a  name 
abroad  and  died  famous,  but  also  died  beloved.  I  have 
heard  this  group  was  intended  for  an  idealization  of  the 
woman  whom  he  had  known  here  in  his  days  of  toil  and 
struggle — perhaps  of  some  one  woman  who  wore  her 
angelhood  so  visible  to  liis  eye  that  the  poor  faint  tongue 
did  not  dare  to  tell  her  how  he  loved  her.  Ah,  poor 
tongue !  it  were  better  to  speak  and  die  rather  than  suffer 
on  and  live  had  you  but  known  it.  If  that  is  true  and  if  she 
still  lives,  I  wonder  whether  she  finds  more  pride  in  thus 
being  immortalized  or  more  sorrow  in  the  thought  that  she 
might  have  been  folded  in  the  strong  arms  and  shrined  in 
the  great  tender  heart  of  him  who  carved  the  marble  into 
beauty.  If  she  is  proud,  it  is  with  pride,  I'll  warrant, 
not  unmixed  with  sadness.  At  any  rate,  the  man  put  his 
dreams  in  marble,  and  this  was  one  of  them;  and  the 
practicalities  of  life  will  perish  and  reperish  as  they  grow 
again  before  this  dream  shall  be  forgotten — the  chimney 
will  fall,  the  fragile  piece  of  statuary  will  remain. 

So  it  is  that  dreams  make  those  who  dream  them 
famous.  The  legislature  has  made  a  move  to  bring  his 
body  from  the  foreign  soil  Avhich  holds  it,  and  place  it 
among  the  distinguished  dead  at  Frankfort.  It  should  be 
done.  The  ladies  too  remember  him  who  so  beautifully 
remembered  them,  and  have  set  themselves  to  work  to 
bring  his  greatest  triumph  home  to  his  native  State.  They 
feel  that  no  more  lasting  monument  to  him  could  be  sug- 
gested than  to  place  near  his  long  home,  here  in  the  State 
which  grew  proud  of  him,  the  work  upon  which  his  hands, 


44  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

as  they  came  nearer  to  their  final  folding  on  his  breast, 
lingered  most  lovingly. 

The  ladies  here  have  organized  a  Hart  Memorial  Asso- 
ciation, and  hope  to  bring  the  statue  here  and  place  it  in 
the  new  court-house,  where  he  would  love  to  see  it  were 
he  living.  They  say  it  is  an  apotheosis  of  Kentucky 
womanhood,  and  every  Kentucky  woman  should  give 
and  do  her  part  toward  securing  it,  so  "  that  the  humblest 
woman,  who,  from  her  daily  toil  and  self-denial,  gives  her 
mite,  shall,  when  this  group  is  unveiled,  have  the  same 
part  and  parcel  in  the  offering  as  she  who  gives  the  most." 
They  wish  their  sons,  when  they  go  in  and  out,  to  have 
before  their  eyes  not  merely  the  stern  image  of  justice, 
but  an  unfading  reminder  that  there  are  higher  and  more 
lovely  virtues,  and  if  their  fathers  were  brave  and  wise 
and  just,  their  mothers  also  were  chaste  as  they  were 
beautiful. 

My  good  wishes  go  with  these  women  in  their  work. 
It  is  too  seldom  in  our  daily  life  a  sweet  thought  or  a 
gentle  fancy  comes  to  make  us  glad.  The  night  shakes 
tender  dreams,  like  the  dew  of  Hermon,  from  her  soft 
wings,  but  in  the  garish  day  it  is  only  the  gleam  of  a 
woman's  eye  or  the  beam  of  a  woman's  smile  in  passing 
that  can  make  life  glorious  for  the  moment.  The  unblos- 
somed  mystery  of  maidenhood  and  the  full  bloom  fra- 
gance  of  accepted  love  form  the  crown  of  flowers  that 
man  spends  his  life  in  seeking,  and  every-where  woman  is 
an  urn  filled  with  the  wine  of  joy.  In  her  warmlife  supreme, 
even  in  the  cold  marble  she  can  shed  blessings  on  us  and 
teach  lessons  of  higher,  purer,  better  things  than  our  poor, 
pettifogging  ways  would  lead  us  to. 

So  I  gaze  into  the  moonlight,  and  muse  upon  the  mys- 
tery of  woman. 

Falcon. 


SPEECH    OF    JUDGE    MULLIGAN.  45 


JUDGE  MULLIGAN'S  SPEECH 

rpoN 
THE   APPROPRIATION    FOR  ,IOEL  T.   HART'S   GREAT  WORK. 


Mr.  Speaker — I  crave  tlie  attention  of  this  House  for 
the  brief  space  of  five  minutes,  that  I  may  explain  the  ob- 
ject of  the  amendment  offered  by  myself.  Many  years  ago 
there  came  to  the  then  village  of  Lexington  a  rude  stone- 
mason, born  and  raised  in  the  county  of  Clark.  He  had 
picked  up  the  profession  of  a  stone-mason,  and  earned  the 
wages  of  a  laborer  in  building  stone  fences  and  the  pon- 
derous stone  chimneys  that  fittingly  became  the  log  houses 
erected  in  the  remote  parts  of  Clark,  Montgomery,  and 
Fayette  counties.  He  came  to  the  town  with  no  higher 
purpose  than  to  learn  what  appeared  to  him  to  be  the  art 
of  dressing  stone  into  smoother  surface.  No  one  less  sus- 
pected the  divine  spark  of  genius  that  glowed  in  his  soul 
than  did  he;  nor  was  any  more  surprised  than  himself 
when  the  fires  of  genius  burst  forth  in  him  in  the  fullness 
of  time,  and  he  began  to  carve  designs  and  figures,  which, 
though  rude  and  uncouth,  yet  were  beautiful  in  the  ex- 
quisiteness  of  proportion.  Encouraged  by  the  develop- 
ment, he  turned  day  into  night,  and,  after  the  many  hours 
of  day  labor,  he  toiled  on  at  night  in  the  studio  of  the 
artist.  So,  little  by  little,  he  grew  in  his  chosen  profession, 
devoting  every  cent  of  his  scant  earnings  to  improvement 
and  study,  until,  to  be  brief,  he  became  a  great  artist,  yet 
living  in  poverty  and  in  a  garret,  where  he  at  once  wrought 
out  the  beautiful  works  of  his  soul,  and  cooked  and  washed 
for  himself.  He  it  was  in  time  who  executed  the  statue  of 
the  great  Harry  of  the  West,  his  friend,  which  was  pur- 
chased by  the  city  of  Louisville,  and  is  now  a  striking- 
monument  in  the  court-house  in  that.  city.  He  also  ex- 
ecuted the  figure  of  the  same  great  man,  an  ornament  to 


46  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

the  State  House  of  Virginia,  the  mother  of  States.  Vir- 
ginia followed  her  son  in  his  Kentucky  home,  and  from 
a  Kentnckian  had  his  image  made  eternal  in  marble.  So 
that  central  monument  to  the  same  statesman  and  patriot, 
around  which  the  Crescent  City  has  never  tired  of  placing 
her  most  splendid  architectural  adornments,  is  the  work  of 
his  hands.  In  marble  he  reproduced  not  only  Clay,  but 
Jackson,  and  many  other  great  men  who  figured  in  that 
era  of  our  history. 

Such  was  the  rise  and  triumph  of  Joel  T.  Hart,  and  in 
doing  this  he  did  more.  He  gave  Kentucky  a  place  in  art. 
He  was,  and  still  is,  the  only  sculptor  that  Kentucky  has 
ever  produced.  He  wrote  his  name  high  upon  the  very 
dome  of  the  Temple  of  Art  and  civilization.  Yet,  withal, 
this  man  was  not  a  mere  artist  absorbed  in  his  art ;  he 
ever  turned  to  and  loved  Kentucky,  and  his  place  as  a 
patriot  whose  heart  glowed  with  a  love  of  his  native  State 
and  her  people  is  not  less  exalted  than  it  is  as  an  artist. 
With  his  scant  savings  he  betook  himself  to  Europe,  that 
he  might  drink  in  the  inspiration  of  her  most  glorious 
schools  and  models.  His  life  there  of  twenty  years  was 
a  life  of  study,  toil,  poverty,  and  privation.  The  few  vis- 
itors from  his  native  State  found  him  subsisting  upon 
coarse  bread  and  cheese  and  the  sour  wine  of  the  Italian 
laborer,  while  his  habitation  was  scarce  more  than  a  hovel. 
For  twenty  years  this  man  searched  and  measured  to  com- 
bine at  least  one  figure  that,  perfect  in  form  and  grace,  in 
poise  and  proportion,  should  typify  not  only  the  unmatched 
beauty  of  the  women  of  his  native  Kentucky,  but  should 
exemplify  that  highest  charm  of  all  womanhood,  which  is 
the  pride  and  glory  of  our  pure  and  lovely  women— their 
vestal  purity.  At  last,  the  group  completed  in  the  clay, 
the  artist  became  an  old  man,  lay  down  and  died,  like 
Moses,  in  sight  of  the  land  of  promise,  destined  never  to 
see  his  life-work  completed.  An  association  of  ladies, 
actuated  by  the  most  commendable  motives,  have  deter- 
mined that  this  graceful  and  inspiring  monument  to  their 
sex  and  country  which  ever  preaches  a  sermon  of  purity, 


SPEECn    OF    JUDGE    MULLKiAN.  47 

shall  not  pass  into  any  private  gallery. of  collections.  It  is 
now  for  sale  by  the  great  house  of  Tiffany  &  Co.,  of  New 
York,  who,  with  the  most  commendable  liberality,  have 
offered  it  at  a  much  reduced  price,  that  it  may  find  its 
place  where  it  properly  belongs,  in  that  Kentucky  its 
author  loved  so  well.  These  noble  women  appeal  to  you, 
to  the  State  of  Kentucky,  to  assist  them  to  the  extent  of  but 
$1,000.  Can  you  refuse  it?  Would  it  not  be  a  shame  that 
this  beautiful  monument  to  the  womanly  beauty  and  virtue 
of  your  State  should  pass  into  hands  outside  of  the  State? 
Would  it  not  put  your  pride  and  manhood  to  the  blush? 
In  the  name  of  these  gentle  women  ;  in  the  name  of  your 
State;  in  the  name,  and  by  the  memory  of  the  only  artist 
of  world-wide  fame  that  ever  sprang  from  our  people ;  by 
the  memory  of  his  life  of  toil  and  his  patriotism  that  never 
dimmed ;  by  the  melancholy  pathos  that  surrounded  his 
life  and  its  close;  in  the  name  of  the  man  who  has  caught 
and  made  eternal  the  inspiration  of  the  purity  and  chastity 
of  our  dear  wives  and  daughters;  who  has  transfixed  en- 
duringly  the  sweet  softness  of  an  inspired  dream,  I  ask  you, 
men  of  Kentucky,  to  make  this  appropriation.    [Applause.] 


48  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T,    HART. 


COL.  FRANK  WATERS  BEFORE  COUNCIL 


Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen  of  the  Council: 

The  ladies  composing  the  Hart  Memorial  Association 
appear  before  you  in  your  official  capacity,  asking  of  you 
co-operation  and  assistance  in  the  noble  work  they  have 
inaugurated.  Years  ago  a  poor  artisan  hewed  out  from 
our  rough  rocks  a  scant  subsistence;  under  happier  au- 
spices, and  in  a  sunnier  clime,  he  wrought  from  the  quarries 
of  Italy  works  that  to-day  have  given  him  a  name  and 
fame  co-extensive  with  enlightened  humanity,  widespread 
as  the  love  of  art  and  beauty. 

The  crowning  work  of  a  long,  laborious  life;  the  great- 
est triumph  of  his  genius,  upon  which  he  rested  his  hopes 
of  fame,  was  commemorative  of  the  virtue  of  his  coun- 
try's women.  It  is  therefore  peculiarly  appropriate  that 
our  women  should  seek  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  Joel 
T.  Hart,  and  to  procure  an  indestructible  testimonial  to 
.their  purity  and  virtue,  illustrated  by  this,  the  greatest  of 
his  works. 

This  work,  "  The  Triumph  of  Chastity,"  is  now  procura- 
ble by  the  Hart  Memorial  Association  at  a  price  far  below 
its  intrinsic  value  as  a  work  of  art.  It  is  proposed  by  the 
Association  to  purchase  this  group  of  statuary  and  place 
it  in  the  rotunda  of  the  beautiful  Temple  of  Justice  be- 
ing erected  on  our  public  square,  there  to  be  an  ever- 
present  testimonial  to  the  purity  of  Kentucky's  women  and 
the  genius  of  Kentucky's  sons.  It  is  for  you,  gentlemen, 
as  representing  the  city,  to  aid  in  this  noble  work  by  an 
appropriation  that  will  evidence  your  pride  and  apprecia- 
tion of  the  purity  of  the  one,  the  fame  of  the  other. 

It  is  useless,  gentlemen,  to  detain  you,  urging  upon  you 
the  fitness  of  such  an  appropriation.     It  is  no  donation  of 


COL.    FRANK    WATERS    BEFORE    COUNCIL.  49 

public  moneys  for  private  uses  that  is  asked.  It  is  for  pub- 
lic use,  for  the  beautifying  and  adornment  of  our  city,  and 
is  as  much  within  the  scope  of  your  legitimate  powers  as 
any  work  of  improvement  you  could  undertake — as  much 
so  as  the  sums  which  our  citizens  are  called  upon  to  con- 
tribute to  the  handsome  structure  in  which  this  statuary 
is  to  be  placed,  and  of  which  it  is  to  become  a  part. 

Therefore,  of  you  as  representing  our  municipality,  the 
ladies  of  the  Hart  Memorial  Association  ask  such  an  ap- 
propriation toward  the  laudable  end  in  view  as  will  com- 
port with  the  dignity,  the  liberality,  and  the  reputation 
of  the  Athens  of  the  West,  And  to  this  end  I  would 
suggest  the  reference  of  the  subject  to  such  a  committee 
as  your  body  may  deem  appropriate. 


Under  dateof  "Florence,  Italy,  April  16th,  1871,"  Mr. 
Hart  writes — "  Many  wonder  why  I  have  not  finished  this 
work  long  ago,  some  no  doubt  from  being  ignorant 
of  what  constitutes  a  work  of  this  kind — of  the  great  diffi- 
culty  of  reaching  perfections  beyond  the  ordinary."  Again 
under  date  of  October  18th,  1876,  he  writes — "I  have  so 
economized  that  I  have  secured  the  finishing  in  marble  of 
my  life  work.  I  have  the  best  workmen  I  ever  saw  at  it 
and  rapidest.  I  pointed  the  whole  torso  to  the  knees  of 
the  woman,  myself,  when  my  pointer  was  at  his  meals,  and 
on  fcstas  when  ho  could  not  work.  I  now  work  on  the 
finishing.  All  this  I  can  hurry.  I  could  not  hurry  the 
modeling.  I  have  liad  more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty 
originals  to  study  from.  This  perseverance  accounts  for 
the  milk  in  the  cocoanut.  Should  I  die  in  the  mean  time 
Mr.  Geo.  II.  Saul,  an  English  sculptor  residing  here,  and 
my  art  executor,  will  be  responsible  and  have  this  w^ork 
paid  for  as  it  goes  on,  and  sent  to  the  United  States  to  be 
disposed  of  to  settle  my  afiairs  there." 


50  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 


[Written  for  the  Lexington  Observer.] 

HART'S  ^'TRIUMPH  OF  CHASTITY." 

INSCRIBED  TO  MRS.  WM.  C.   P.  BRECKINRIDGE. 

BY  ROSA  VKKTNEK  JEFPRKY. 


An  artist's  hand  hath  carved  a  mystic  story, 

Whose  inspiration  through  the  marble  shines; 
Its  dumb,  cold  whiteness  is  transfused  with  glory 

Illuminating  all  the  beauty  lines. 
A  story !  in  the  fair  form  of  a  woman — 

Let  woman's  heart  its  subtle  truth  evolve; 
This  marble  problem- — yet  with  all  so  human. 

By  genius  left,  for  purity  to  solve. 

A  rare  creation  !  as  to  form  and  fashion, 

A  woman,  by  whose  lofty  pose  is  shown 
The  soul's  high  triumph  over  earthly  passion, 

A  fable!  marvelously  cut  in  stone. 
With  life's  warm  flushes  through  its  pallor  breaking 

To  tint  the  cheek,  and  pulse  the  sculptured  breast, 
'T  would  scarcely  be  more  eloquent — thus  waking — 

Than  in  its  perfect  and  eternal  rest. 

A  thing  of  faultless  beauty,  through  long  ages 

It  must  forever  stand,  forever  shine, 
Its  meaning  graved  on  Parity's  white  pages. 

Worshiped  forever  in  her  cloistered  shrine. 
All  honor  to  the  genius  thus  achieving 

Such  glorious  triumph,  with  a  master's  hand, 
This  chaste  ideal  of  his  soul  receiving 

Its  impress  from  the  women  of  his  land. 

He  gave  them  homage  without  stint  or  measure; 

Upon  the  altar  of  his  native  home — 
Be  it  their  mission  to  enshrine  this  treasure, 

Fine  as  the  sculptured  gems  of  ancient  Rome. 
Within  the  milk-white  quarries  of  Carrara, 

No  purer,  fairer  marble  ever  shone ; 
No  purer  women  live,  and  none  are  fairer 

Than  those  he  has  immortalized  in  stone. 
Lexington,  Ky,  April  I5t/i,  1884. 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 


51 


The  cost  of  Hart's  statue,  and  the  efforts,  great  as  they  may  be, 
made  by  the  women  of  Fayette  to  accomplish  their  object,  are  as 
atoms  to  mountains,  compared  with  the  good  results  which  will 
flow  from  the  refining  efiect  on  the  community  of  the  recognition 
of  the  genius  of  this  man,  who  lived  among  us  poor  and  lowly, 
but  who,  by  his  own  patient  toil,  made  himself  worthy  of  that 

place  to  which 

All  men  lovingly  raise  him 
Up  from  his  life  obscure, 
Chronicle,  praise  him. 

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MEMORIAL   TO   JOEL    T.    HART. 


Amid  the  dust  of  city  streets, 
Where  din  of  life  the  senses  greets, 
Two  tiny  rooms  one  sculptor  held, 
Whose  work  must  rival  those  of  eld, 
For  never  subject  more  devout, 
At  Beauty's  court  stood  waiting  out. 


The  hand  is  still,  whose  patient  stroke 
Such  beauties  into  being  woke, 
But  Virtue's  triumph  sounds  the  call, 
Above  the  folded  funeral  pall: 
Let  those  who  love  refining  art 
Extol  the  name  of  Joel  Hart. 

Eudora  L.  South. 


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MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART.  53 

Dr.  Joseph  R.  Smith,  the  husband  of  Mary  Smithers, 
the  early  and  only  love  of  Joel  T,  Ilart,  sent  $50.00  to  the 
H.  i\I.  A.,  to  help  purchase  Woman  Triumpiiaiit.  It  was 
to  Mary  Smitliers  he  wrote: 

"  Tliy  picture,  Mary,  turns  me,  while  T  gaze, 

To  thee,  and  morn's  first  breathing  bloom  of  May, 
Thou  sweetest  rose  in  early  Spring's  sweet  day. 
.And  oh!   how  fair,  but  wherefore  do  I  praise, 

Since  thou  art  gone,  and  Spring  hath  passed  away? 


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Also  the  f.nest  pnre  candies,  viz.: 

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And  the  only  place  in  the  city  where  you  zvill  find  Ice  Cream 

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Yozc  will  find  every  thing  in  the  Chewing  and  Smoking  line. 

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54 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 


[Letter  from  Mr,  Hart  to  Hon.  C.  M.  Clay.] 

Florence,  Italy,  Ja7i.  22,  1865. 
My  Dear  Clay : 

I  send  you  greetings  with  a  bit  of  my  patriotism  which 
was  published  in  some  of  the  American  newspapers,  but 
not,  I  believe,  in  the  Louisville  Journal.      .       .       .      As 

No,  54  EAST   MAIN    STREET, 

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Martingales,     English    Girths,    Sways,     Fine 
TrsAck  and  Road   Harness, 

Ani  every  Description  of  Racing,  Training  and  Other  Goods. 

We  have  superior  facilities  in  the  manufacture  of  first- 
class  work,  and  invite  you  to  an  examination  of  our  im- 
mense stocli,  wliich  i's  offered  at  the  lowest  cash  prices. 

THOMPSON  &    BOYD, 


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Portraits  in  India  lnl(,  Water  Colors  and  Crafons. 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART.  55 

to  myself,  I  have  forgone  every  thing  else  to  reach  the  first 
degree  in  my  profession,  and  as  you  were  my  first  patron 
and  of  all  the  most  cordial  to  greet  and  favor  my  labors, 
however  humble,  I  know  you  will  be  pleased  to  hear  a 
word  of  what  I  am  about.     And  first,  within  the  last  fifteen 

DEALER     IN 

STAPLE  AND  FANCY  GROCERIES, 

No.  17  Cheapside,  Lexington,  Kentucky. 

HENRY   BERTSOH, 
JEWELER  AND   ENGRAVER, 

DEALER    IN 

Watches,    Diamonds,   Jewelry, 
SOLID  SILVER  AND  SILVER  PLATED  WARE, 

riiJEXCU  AXIt  AMERICAN  CLOCKS, 

No.  40  East  Main  Street,        Lexington,  Kentucky. 

THE  LEXINGTON  BOTTLING  WORKS 

M.  BENCKART,  Proprietor, 

SOLE  i  PROPRIETOR  +  OF  +  THE  +  GENUINE  ^  BLUE  i  LIGK  +  WATER. 

Office,  No.  12  Short  St.  Factory,  Cor.  Third  and  Upper  Sis. 

LEXINGTON,  KENTUCKY. 

Telephone  No.  HI. 

R.  S.  STRADER.  THOS  C.  JEFFERSON. 

SALE  AND  COMMISSION  STABLE- 

Dealers  in  Fine  Matched  Coach,  Carriasire  and  Roadster  Pairs, 

Al.Sd    'III  I'. 

FINEST  TYPE  OF  LADIES'  AND  GENTLEIUJEN'S  SADDLE  HORSES  ON  HAND, 
Nos.  46  and  48  West  Short  Street, 

XjiEiKxisra-Tonsr,  i^izr. 


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MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 


months  I  have  remodeled  my  statue  of  H.  Clay  for  Louis- 
ville; made  it  original  and  far  finer  than  either  of  my 
preceding  ones.  It  is  far  advanced  in  an  exquisite  block 
of  the  finest  marble. 

For  ray  portraits  the  Italians  gave  me  the  first  place  of 


C.  SUYOAM  SCOTT, 
Attorney  and  Counselor  at  Law, 

No.  20  N.  UPPER   STREET, 

Lexington,  Ky. 


BRECKINRIDGE  &  SHELBY, 
Attorneys  and  Counselors  at  Law, 

No.  21   E.   SHORT  STREE  r, 

Lexington,  Ky. 


Z.    GIBBONS, 
Attorney  and  Counselor  at  Law, 

No.  so   E.  SHORT    STREET, 

Lexington,   Ky. 


BRONSTON  &  KINKEAD, 
Attorneys  and  Counselors  at  Law, 

No.  58   E.  SHORT  STREET. 

Lexington,  Ky. 


M.    C.    ALFORD, 
Attorney  and  Counselor  at  Law, 

No.   18  N.  UPPER   STREET, 

Lexington,  Ky. 


BUCKNER  &  ALLEN, 
Attorneys  and  Counselors  at  Law, 

No.  22  N.   UPPER   STREET, 

Lexington,  Ky. 


MULLIGAN  &.  BEAUCHAMP, 
Attorneys  and  Counselors  at  Law, 

No.  47  E.  SHORT  STREET, 

Lexington,  Ky. 


STEPHEN    G.  SHARPE, 
Attorney  and  Counselor  at  Law, 

No.  16  N.   UPPER  STREET, 

Lexington,   Ky. 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART.  57 

honor  of  any  foreigner  in  their  great  l^ational  exhibition 
three  years  ago. 

Bat  it  is  to  the  ideal  that  I  have  mainly  devoted  myself 
for  the  fifteen  past  years,  only  allowing  two  or  three  busts 
to  go  out  of  my  hands. 

I  studied  anatomy  for  five  or  six  years — an  hoar  a  day 

KSTABLISHKI)  lS,J->. 

^vdllL^^T^^f^ISID    dc    Co. 

FURNITURE 

IN  tiREAT   VARIEIV", 
FOK  SALK  OK  KKNT  ON  KASV  TKIIMS. 

MILWARI)  &  CO.    8  and  lo  W.  Main  St.,  Lexinoton,  Ky. 
PIERCE  D.  BUTLER,  Agent. 

ASHLAND  COAL  AND  IRON 

OFFICE  317  E.  MAIN  STREET,  LEXINGTON,  KY. 

Ashland  Coal  Shippied  to  all  points  on  tlic  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Railroad,  the  Kentucky 

Central  Itailroad  and  Lmisville,  Cincinnati  and  Lexinafton  Railroad. 

DAILY   CAPACITY   80,000    BUSHELS. 

loeyenhaf^ot's 

MAMMOTH   CLOTHING   HOUSE, 

No.  4  East  Main  Street,  Lexington,  Ky. 

111"^,;  BOYS';,  imm^\  km  mimmw^  ^immm, 

IN  CENTRAL  KENTUCKY,  AT  REASONABLE  PRICES. 

FULL    LINE     OF    MEN'S     FURNISHING    GOODS. 
Clothing  and  Shirts  made  to  Order 


A.  B.  CHINN  &  CO., 


DEALERS   IN 


Silks,  Satins,  Dress   Goods, 

White  Goods,  Laees,  Notions,  etc., 

n;o.  32  Main  Street,  opp.  Court  House, 

LEXINGTON,    KY. 


58  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

at  Lexington,  during  the  winter;  modeled  busts  of  Dad- 
ley,  Cross,  etc. ;  have  been  five  times  to  London  (studied 
there  fourteen  months  at  one  time) ;  twice  to  Paris,  group- 
ing tableaux  with  the  Pompein  Damsels;  five  times  to 
Rome,   once  to   I^aples — over   thirty   years    keeping   my 

ASHLANB  STOCK  FARM, 

Devoted  [xclusivelf  lo  the  Breeding  of  Trotting  Horses, 


THE  STALLIONS  IN  USE  ARE 


ilOf 4f  OE  (kftliif  I®  S&j^tif,  mi  tl©  liii  @f  la^'-lyi-i©!), 
llli  1111,,  ami 

f llf @il  (lf®ll©F  I®  filik©i). 


■^^CATALOG^XJES  P^xiRisrisiiEr)  ON  i>em:anid. -$®> 


H.  c.  McDowell, 

LBXINGTO^,  KENTUCKY, 


EXPORTER   OF 

MONOiMENTS,  HEADSTONES  AND  STATUARY. 

Fine  Carving  a  Specialty.     Estimates  Cheerfully  Given. 

CARRARA,   ITALY. 

WM.    ADAMS    &    SONS, 

IMPORTERS    OF 

MARBLE  AND  GRANITE  MONUMENTS, 

STATUTES,   HEADSTONES,   ETC., 

No.  37  Broadway,         -         -         Lexington,  Ky. 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART.  59 

especial  studies  to  myself — and  have  at  last  gratified  my 
passion  in  modeling  a  life-size  ideal  virgin  and  child  in  a 
group  (not  the  Christians'  Virgin  and  Child,  however). 

The  figures  are  nude — "  Beauty's  Triumph."     The  being 
assailed  by  Cupid  rests  her  left  foot  on  his  exhausted  quiver 


H0R8EMWS  HEADQUARTERS. 

TREACY  &  WILSON,  Proprietors, 

l%%  last  lain.  Etseiij  %mxkgim,j  Keaticky.. 

Our  new  stable,  capable  of  accommodating;  three  hundred  head  of  horses, 
and  which  has  ever}- convenience,  including;  special  room  for  ladies,  has  been 
called  the  Tattersalls  of  America,  the  most  competent  authorities  pronoun- 
cing it  unequaled  in  its  line  in  this  country.  Hor.-emen's  Headquaters  form 
a  branch  of  the  Ashland  Park  Breeding  Farm,  the  business  in  this  case 
being  liver}'  and  sale.  All  the  leading  horsemen  in  Central  Kentucky  put 
up  at  this  stable,  as  do  gentlemen  from  a  distance,  makintr  it,  in  actual  fact, 
horsemen's  headquarters.  In  the  commission  work  done  in  cor.nection  with 
this  stable,  it  is  assumed  that  gentlemen  desire  what  is  honorable  and  just, 
and  our  constant  purpose  is  to  act  correctly  by  all  parties  to  a  transaction. 
We  shall  see  that  the  buyer  gets  all  that  thu  seller  promises,  and  in  no  case 
will  we  knowinglj'  permit  an  unsound  animal  to  be  palmed  ofl'  on  any  pur- 
chaser looking  to  us  for  guidance.  The  high  reputation  of  Treacy  &  Wilson, 
as  horsemen  above  reproach  and  with  a  stainless  good  name,  is  pledged  in 
this  matter. 

G.  ^W.  MUIR. 

REAL  ESTATE  ANO  liSURANCE  AGENT, 

OFFICE,    27    MILL    STREET, 

Buys  and  Sells  all  kinds  of  Real  Estate    and   attends 
to  the  Collection  of  Rents  on  Comniission. 

He   also    represents   several   live    Insurance    Compa- 
nies that  pay  losses  promptly. 
HE  SOLICITS  A  SHARE  OF  YOUB  PATRONAGE. 

¥m.  E.  SrfDER,  Jr., 

IMPORTED  AND  AMERICAN  CEMENT, 

Barrelled  and  Bulk  Lime,  and  Ready  Mixed  Material, 

180  &  132  E.   MAIN   ST. 


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MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.  HART. 


and  holds  his  hist  arrow  in  triumph,  for  which  he  pleads, 
tiptoeing  after  it.  It  gives  the  most  graceful  and  fiucst 
attitude,  both  to  the  woman  and  the  boy.  All  who  speak 
out  say  that  the  attitude  is  finer  than  either  the  Venus  de 
Medici  or  the  Venus  of  Milo  at  Paris.    Rinehart,  the  Balti- 


LOUI8  ^  ©PS,  gTBAUS, 
THE  LEADING  CLOTHIERS, 

FINE  MERCHANT  TAILORS, 


ISTos.   76,   78,   and  80  MAIN   STIiEET, 


Near  PhcBnix  Hotel, 


LEXINGTON,   KY. 


Lace  Curtain  Parlor, 

AT 

I'lATT,  INNES    &  WILLIAMS. 

Carpet  Store. 


GQi^s.  P(ate  &t3r^iGHiii, 


DEAI.riR    IN 


MILLIITEET,  PilCI  GOODS,  AID  lOTIOIS. 

LEXINGTON,  KY. 

A  Full  Line  of  Fine  Stationery,  Photo  and  Autograph  Albums,  Scrap 
Pictures,  Toilet  Articlf^s,  Combs,   Brushes,   Toilet  Soan,  Per- 
fumery, Pocket  Books,  Dolls,  etc.,  always  in  stock. 


MEMORIAL    TO    .lOEL    T.    HART. 


61 


more  sculptor,  whom  Powers  says  is  the  best  sculptor 
America  has  yet  produced  (save  our  dear  selves),  tells  it  is 
the  finest  work  in  Florence.  Such  speeches  are  now  every 
day  being  made.  The  idea  is  modern  and  my  own.  Though 
not  near  finished,  it  is  a  far  finer  work  than  I  ever  expected 


TRAINING  AND  STOCK   FARM, 

NEAR    LEXINGTON,    KY. 
Trotters  ami  trotting-bred  stock  alwiiys  on   hand   ior 
sale;  also  pairs,  gentlemen's  roadsters,  saddle  horses,  family 
horses,  etc.     For  catalogue  apply  to 

L.  HEKIi, 

Box  384,  Lexington,  Ky. 

J,  Me  EOCHB  &  C©. 

PLUMBERS,  GAS(f  STEAM  FITTERS 

UIIOI.KSAI.E    AND    HKTAII.   DI:aI.EI:S    IN 

Pumps,  Gas  and  Kerosene  Chandeliers,  and  Lamp  Goods,  Iron,  Lead, 

Gum  and  Steam  Pipes,  Steam  Gauges,  Valves  and  Whistles,  Baths,  Water 

Closets  and  all  Plumbing  Materials.    Agent  Springfield  Gas  Machine. 

LEXINGTON,  KY. 


13  NOMTH  MILL  ST., 


D.  A.  GIVENS, 

ELMARCH  HERD. 

CYNTHIANA,   KY. 

Breeder  of  thorcuehcicd  Jcrsej" 
Cattle,  A.  J.  i;.  C.H.  E. 

Votina  firern.  77ti8.      Niliila.  5S46 

Miihtl  K^ghiiii  Buiihiiir. 
litx  AlphiiiAiW,  PaiisyClaiiiipion 

Jii-giiin  Hui.ulii-I. 
Dolly  SiiGi-ingf.     Mtiiiil  Eurotas 

hintiis  Siuvjintivi. 
Dido  Ddilingt'Oi,    (Jiieen  A'eptune 
JolivKoirn  linniiy. 

Stol.-e  Pogin  uf  Ehnarch 


P.  T.  A.  E.  T.  T.  P. 

This  is  a  true  motto,  and  one  that  you  can  rely  upon, 

when  you  buy  your  goods  of  me.    I  keepthelarg- 

est  and  best  Selected  stock  of  Fancy  Goods 

and  Notions  this  side  of  New  York. 

I.  T.  L.  F».  J.  M.  T. 

A.  UARTSTEIN. 


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MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 


to  produce.  I  have  casts  of  all  the  greatest  antiques  and 
modern  of  the  Venus  family  and  the  like  in  my  studio. 
The  best  connoisseurs  say  that  none  of  them  equal  mine. 
But  this  is  too  much — at  least  for  me  to  say,  but  it  is  to 
you  I  am  writing.     I  wish  to  exhibit  it  in  marble  in  the 


CASSELL,  PRICE  &  CO., 


DRALEHS  IN 


IDIK^    a-OOIDB^ 


NOTIONS,  ETC., 


16  and  18  West  Main  Street, 


XjZej^xj^g-toiss-^  k:y. 


E.  I^.  SPOTSWOOD  ^  SON, 

WHOLESALE    AND    ItETAIL 
IiEAI.EKS    IN 

SASHES,  DOORS,  AND  BLINDS, 

And  all  Kinds  of  Building-  Material. 

PIIOPKIETORS   OF  THE 

ASHLAND   PLANING   MILL, 

EAST  MAIN  STREET,  ABOVE  PHflENIX  HOTEL, 

Lexington,   Ky. 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART.  63 

United  States.  I  could  have  it  pliotog-raplied  and  send 
you  a  copy,  but  it  is  best  not  to  let  the  photographer  now 
meddle  with  it.  One  or  two  sculptors  have  already 
plagiarized  from  it.     I  expect  some  day  to  engrave  your 

FALL  MEETING, 
KENTUCKY  ASSOCIATION, 

AT    LEXING^TON,    KY., 

Commences  Saturday,  September  6th,  and 
continues  Six  Days. 

Liberal  purses  will  bo  given  in  addition  to  the 
laro'e  stakes  already  closed. 

No  charge  of  admission  for  ladies. 


TSTo.  2901. 


D.  H.  JAMES,  Paesident.  W.  D.  NICHOLAS,  Cashikr. 

R.  A.  THORNTON,  VICE  Puesident.  .T.  P:  SHAW,  Assistant  Cashier. 

ge©8Fid  F?eitii8Fial  Banl\, 

OF  LEXINGTON,  KY. 


A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Collections 
made  on  all  accessible  points,  and  remittances  promptly- 
made  at  lowest  rates.     Correspondence  solicited. 

13IRKCTORS. 

H.  W.  WORLEY.  J.  H.  GRAVES.  WM.  WARREN.  D.   H.  JAMES. 

C.  W.  FOUSHEE.  R.  A.  THORNTON.    J.  M.  LOGAN. 


64  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

name  upon  it  as  my  first  patron,  but  will  talk  of  this  bye 
and  bye.  I  wish  you  would  make  a  visit  to  old  Italy.  Drop 
me  a  line. 

In  the  hope  that  you  and   yours  are  well,  ever  truly? 

Joel  T.  Hart. 


LPJXINaTON,    KENTUCKY: 

THREE  COLLEGES— Arts,  Bible  and  Commercial. 

COLLEGE  OF  ARTS— Has  tv^o  Courses,  Classical  and 
Scientific,  with  twelve  teachers. 

FEE — $12.00  per  session  of  nine  months. 

COLLEGE  OF  THE  BIBLE  has  no  tuition  fee. 

Students  of  the  College  of  the  Bible  have  access  with- 
out charge  to  the  classes  of  the  College  of  Arts,  and 
those  of  the  College  of  Arts  to  the  classes  of  the  Bible. 

SESSION  OPENS  THE  SECOND  MONDAY  IN  SEPTEMBER. 

For  Catalogues,  address 

CHARLES  LOUIS  LOOS,  President  of  tlie  University. 
ROBERT  GRAHAM,  President  of  the  (  ollege  of  the  Bible. 


ASHLAND   HOUSE, 

Short  Street,  near  Post-office,  Lexington,   Ky. 

Eates,  12.00  PER  Day. 

H.  E.   BOSWELL  &  SON, 

PROPRIETORS. 


(Established  184.3.) 

Dealers   in    PIANOS    AND    ORGANS, 

CINCINNATI,  O., 

BRANCH  OFFICE:   48  North  Upper  Street  (opposite  Mrs.  Ketcham's), 
XjEXiiira-TOisr,  IECy. 

Sole  Agents  for  the  celebrated  Weber,  Kurtzm-jn.  and  other  Pianos,  Burdett  and  other 
Organs.  Call  and  examine  before  buying  ehewhere.  Great  inducements  offered  in  low 
prices  and  easy  payments.     H.  L.  Howe,  first-cldss  Tuner  and  Repairer. 


65 


Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Railway, 

SOLID    TRAIN  ROUTE   TO 

WASHINGTON,  P.  C,  RICHMOND,  VA., 

NEWPORT  NEWS  and  OLD  POINT  COMPORT. 


Entire  trains  witli  Pnllnian  Sleeping  Cars  run  through  without  change. 

The  great  Summer  Resort  Rout  of  America — and  the  only  line  to  While  Sulphur 
Spring,  Hotel  VVarwick  at  Newport  News,  and  Hygeia  Hotel"  at  Old  Point  Comfort, 
and  the  only  direct  route  to  the  most  celebrated  resorts  of  the  Blue  Ridge  and  Alle- 
ghany mountains. 

For  diversity  of  travel  there  is  nothing  equal  to  the  combined  Rail  and  Ocean 
tours,  via  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Railway  to  Newport.  News  or,  Old  Point.Comfort  and 
thence,  via.  Old  Dominion  Steamships"  to  New  York. 

Two  trains  a  day  from  Lexington,  Winchester  and  Central  Kentucky  and  the 
shortest  and  quickest  rout  to  the  Kast.  Connection  is  made  in  Pennsylvania  Rail- 
way Depot  in  Washington  with  fast  trains  for  Baltimore,  Philadelphia  and  New 
Yo'rk.    No  delays  and  no  Omnibus  Transfers. 

Nearly  four  hundred  miles  of  the  most  magnificent  scenery  in  America 

Ask  for  tickets,  via.  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  route  to  the  Virginias  and  the  East. 
Full  information  may  l»e  obtained  by  applying  to  agents  of  connecting  lines  or 
to  any  agent  of  the  C.  and  O.  Railway. 

C.W.SMITH,  H.W.  FULLER, 

Cen'l  Manager.  Cen'l  Pass'r  Agt. 


KENTUCKY    CENTRAL   R.    R. 
NEW  STEEL  RAILS,  STONE  BALLAST. 

<S$-  QTJICK    T^IjNIE    AISTD    SURE    CON:srECa:iO]N^S.  •$©> 
THREE  TRAINS  A  DAY  BETWEEN 

LEXINGTON,  x  WINCHESTER  ^  AND  *•  GINGINNATI. 
©HE    I^BNIPUGI^Y    ©BNIPI^AL     Y{.    ^. 

Is  the  most  desirable  route  between  the  Blue  Grass  Section,  and  the  West, 

North,  East,  South,  and  all  other  portions  of  the  United  States  within 

the   reach   of   raiUvav  lines.     The   ONI^V  line   running   FREE 

PARLOR  COACHES  between  Cincinnati  and  Lexington, 

BE  SUEE  THAT  T0U2  TI02ET3  AEE  VIA.  THE  "BLUE  GEAS3  EOUTE"  THAT  YOU  MAY  ENJOY  A 
PLEASANT.  OOMFOETABLE  AND  SAFE  JODEMEY. 

Tickets  will  be  sold  and  baKjjJ*?;*^  ehej'ked  to  any  railway  point. 

S.  F.  B.  MORSE,  Passr.  Agent,  W.  H.  WHITTLESEY,  Trav.  Passr.  Agent, 

CoviNcroN  Ky.  I,KXi.vi;ri)N.  Kv. 

C.W.SMITH,  Cen.  Man.,       H.W.  FULLER,  Cen.  Pas.  Agt. 

K I cj li MO :n^d,   vj^. 


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MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 


The  death  of  Joel  T.  Hart  is  now  known  and  deplored 
throughout  the  United  States.  He  died  March,  1877,  after 
a  lingering  illness,  and  one  whose  various  phases  of  im- 
provement only  raised  the  hopes  of  his  friends  to  be  de- 
stroyed by  the  subsequent  relapse.     He  leaves  a  blank  which 

fii  immmw  iiiwiofiiiii  m. 
MANUFACTURING     MACHINISTS, 

TOOLS,  DIES,  MACHINERY  AND  PATTERNS, 

LIGHT  HARDWARE  AND  PATENTED  NOVELTIES, 

ALL  KINDS   Of 

BRASS  CASTINGS  AND  SHEET  METAL  GOODS. 

Gold,  Silver,  and  Nickel  Plating,  Tableware,  Cutlery,  etc., 
Replated  and  made  as  good  as  New. 

INVENTIONS  IN  OUR  LINE  DEVELOPED,  MANUFACTURED,  AND  INTRODUCED. 

JIANUFACTUKERS   OF  THE 

A  Liock  without   a   Key.     Safe,    Convenient,    and    Burglar-Proof.      It  is    a 

Combination  Lock,  Knob-Latcli,  Night-Latcli,  Dead-Lock,  Door-Bell, 

and  Burglar- Alarm,  all   in   one.     No  liglit  nor  time  required. 

Can   be   opened  witli   one   hand.     The   most  perfect 

Door  Lock  in  the  world.        Send  for  circular. 

THE  LEXINGTON  MANUFACTURING  COMPANY, 

LADIES  HAIR  DRESSED  AND  NAILS  MANICURED. 

306  North  Upper  Street,  Lexington,  Kentucky. 

Orders  left  at  HARRY  JOHNSON'S,  No.  (51  N.  Limestone  Street. 
Satisfaction  guaranteed,  and  best  of  reference  given. 


HORACE  P.    GAINES, 
CATERER  AND  WAITER, 

Address  Post  Office,  Lesington,  Kentucky. 


ROSELINE  BARTON, 
Fancy  Cook, 

Address  No.  164  IT.  Upper  St.,        Lesicgton,  E7. 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T    HART.  67 

it  will  be  impossible  to  fill,  for  though  his  works  were  not 
nnnieroiis,  yet  so  great  was  the  perfection  lie  aimed  at  that 
he  was  uiiivcrally  recognized  as  at  the  head  of  his  art.  At 
the  same  time  his  affectionate,  generous  disposition  made 
him  many  friends,  who  will   mourn   his  loss  as  a  personal 

Fayette  Hational  Bani^, 

LEXINGTON,   KY. 

Capital  Stock,         _        _        _        _         $300,000.00. 
Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits,     -  71.288.41. 

DEPOSITS   SOLICITED. 


->3ic  O  lE^  I^  I C  E  I^  S  .  3N- 
S.  BASSETT,  President.  J.  W.  APPLETON,  Vice-President. 

R.  S.  BULLOCK,  Cashier.  GEO.  W.  DIDLAKE,  Ass'T  Cashier. 

-Mc  HD  1 1^  EO  TOI^  S.3lc-<- 
J.  W.  APPLETON,  JOHN  B.  WALLACE, 

RUFUS  LISLE,  R.  Mc MICHAEL. 

WM.  CASSIUS  GOODLOE,  M.  S.  THOMPSON, 

JOHN  E.  ANDERSON,  J.  B.  MORTON, 

8.  BASSETT. 

STANDARD    BRED   TROTTING   STOCK, 

k^ihi.a^avjst  stock  f^rm:. 

Adjoining  City  of  Lexington,  Ky. 

The  Stock  offered  for  sale  is  a  superior  lot,  bred  and  raised  at  FAIRLAWN 
sired  b3-  the  celebrated  Trotting  Stallions  Almoxt,  H.vppy  Mkdium,  Aber- 


deen', and    Eth.\n  Ali.en,  Jr.,  and  are  out  of  fine  and  very  hijrhly  bred 
trotting  dams.    For  Catalogue  orfuriher  information  apply  on  the  premises, 

WM.  T.  WITHERS, 
Lock  Box  .392,  Lexington,  Kt. 


°''  ^°  WM.  T.  WITHERS, 


ROGER  H.  WILSON  &  CO., 

STORAGE,  COMMISSION,  AND  TRANSFER  MERCHANTS, 

DEALERS  IN 

invciPijEiiivdiiEisrTS,  seeids,  etc., 

AGENTS  FOR 

WM.  DEERING  &  CO.'S  J.  !.  CASE 

Harvesting  Machinery.  Threshers,  Engines,  Cultivators,  and  Plows. 

OFFICE,  No.  11  SOUTH  MILL  STREET, 

£  EX  US' a  TON,    K  T. 


68  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HAET. 

sorrow.  Happily  his  great  work  "  Woman's  Triumph,"  on 
which  he  has  spent  the  Uist  twenty  years  of  his  life,  has 
this  winter  been  put  in  marble.  On  this  he  made  con- 
stant alterations,  for  he  was  unwilling  to  embody  in  a  per- 
manent form  this  work,  to  which  he  trusted  his  fame,  so 


IMPORTANT   TO   LADIES. 

The  elegant    Restaurant  attached  to  Phoenix    Hotel, 
and  run  under  the  management  of  its  proprietors, 
Davidson,  Seelbaeh  tfe  Simonds,  is  pronounced 
to  he. the  best  Restaurant  or  Cafe  in  the 
State.     Ladies    visiting    Lexington    can 
secure  tlie  benefit  of  an  elegant  bill 
of  fare,  and  the  especial  attention 
of  polite  waiters,  by  patron- 
izing tills  establishment. 


RICHARD  P.  STOLL,  President.  JAMES  M.  GRAVES,  Cashter. 

JAMES  PATRICK,  V.  President.  J.  G.  SCRUGHAM,  A.'C.\shier. 


ilj  IB  2^  I  isT  a- T  o  isr 
CITY  NATIONAL  BANK, 


Capital, #200,000. 

Surplus,  -----         4r8,000. 


COLLECTIONS  RECEIVE  PROMPT  ATTENTION,  AND  REMITTED  FOR  AT 
LOWEST  RATES. 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 


69 


long  as  his  critical  eye  could  detect  the  least  chance  of  im- 
provement. In  his  career,  we  have  an  eminent  example  of 
great  genius  combined  with  wearied  study  and  perseverance, 
for  long  after,  to  the  unskillful  eye,  this  statue  seemed  per- 
fect, its  author  made  hundreds  of  changes  on  it. 


PIANOS. 


ORGANS. 


D.  H.  BALDWIN  &  CO., 


Steinway  &  Sons,  Decker  Brothers,  Haines  Brothers,  J.  Si  C.  Fischer,  Cottage, 
Uprights,  and  other  Pianos.  Estey,  Shoninger,  and  Hamilton  Organs  sold  on  easy 
monthly  and  quarterly  payments.    Catalogues  sent  free  on  application. 

Cincinnati,  O.  Louisvh.i.k,  Ky.,  Indianapolis  Ind, 

158  W.  Fourth  St.  230  Fourth  Ave.  '.'.3  N.  Penn  St. 

Lexington  Branch,    16  Market  St.,    P.  F.   TTPDIKJi:,   Salesman. 


11^   "Z"0"cr   Vv^^&.nsrT 

Pure  Drugs,  Chemicals,  and  Medicines, 

Ol:    ANYTHING    IN 

RICHARDsdN\fe   SIMRALL, 

Coi'iier  Mill  and  Short  Streets, 

LEXINGTON,  KY. 

MULLEN,    PHOTOGRAPHER, 

Lexington,  Ky. 


70 


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m^  m^  WMmOI^Mm^MMr,  M^WK^^  WtimmipmlL 


Select  Boarding  and  Day  School 


FOR  YOUNG  LADIES. 

The  Thirty-first  annual  Session  commences  on 
Monday^  September  ist^  1884. 

The  number  of  boarding  pupils  for  this  session 
is  limited  to  thirty  =  five. 

A  high  standard  of  scholarship  and  strict  dis= 
cipline  characterize  all  departments  of  the  school. 

Unusual  advantages  are  offered  in  the  depaurt= 
ments  of  JvHtsic  and  Art. 

Especial  attention  is  given  to  Physical  Culture 
in  the  Gymnasium  and  in  the  Calisthenic  Class. 


FOR  CATALOGUE  APPLY  TO  THE  PRINCIPAL. 


Lexington.  Kentucky. 


71 


THE  LARGEST  FEMALE  BOARDING  SCHOOL  IN 

THE  STATE. 

ivtm  ftwftLt  couiaE 


IS  SITUATED   IN 


LEXINGTON,  KY., 

In  the  midst  of  the  famous  "  Bhie  Grass  Region,"  noted 
for  the  healthfuhiess  of  its  climate, . fertility  of  soil,  and 
beauty  of  its  natural  scenery.  In  a  city  whose  social  and 
educational  advantages  are  unsurpassed.  The  College  has 
a  faculty  composed  of  fifteen  members,  each  of  whom 
has  been  chosen  for  particular  branches,  and  is  especially 
fitted  for  the  work.  It  has  a  well-selected  course  of  study. 
Special  department  for  all  the  Ornamental  Branches. 

Extensive  grounds  for  recreation.  Large  play  room 
for  exercise  during  inclement  weather. 

Excellent  building  of  recent  build,  160  by  140  feet, 
four  stories  high,  containing  125  Apartments. 

Commodious  Chapel,  large  ornamental  play  and  bath 
rooms.  Kice  recitation  rooms,  all  of  which  are  under 
one  roof,  and  heated  by  steam,  and  lighted  with  gas.  Only 
two  young  ladies  occupy  a  room.  Cost  of  improvements 
over  $100,000.  Charges  as  low  as  any  school  in  the  United 
States  ofii'eriiig  similar  advantages.  Over  one  hundred 
young  lady  boarders  the  past  session. 

FALL  TERM, 

COMMENCES  SEP*TEMBER.  lOth,  188-4. 

For  references  apply  to  any  of  our  patrons.  For 
Terms,  Catalogues,  and  a  copy  of  the  Hamilton  College 
Monthly,  edited  by  our  students,  apply  to 

J.  T.  PATTERSON,  President, 

Lexington,  Ky. 


72 


J7^M:ES    K.    FA.TT'ERSOlSr,  I>li.D.,  in.S.A.,    I>residen.t. 
iniinxEEIN    IN-STRXJCTORS   A^NID   TEACHERS. 


J^GJRicu  1^  r  u:rj^jl,    j^istid    ivi e c h;  j^ isr t  c ^^ l.  , 

SCIENTIEIC,    ISrORjyEAIL.    SCHOOL, 

CL.A.SSICA.L,   EN"GI?srEER,ING,  and   COIVTIMERCI AL 

COURSES    OE    SXXJD'^. 


73 


EI^m^H  AMMUAIx  FAIR 


AUGUST  26,  27,  28,  29,  and  30,  1884. 

For  ri-oiniuni  List  and  otlior  liifonniition,  iuldiM'ss 
THOS.  L.  MARTIN,  Secretary,    or    D.  H.  JAMES,  President, 

LKXllSrG'l^ON,    IvKNTlICKY. 


74 


i^EMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 


THE  SCULPTOR  HART. 

To  the  editor  of  the  New  York  Tribune: 

Sir — Joel  Tanner  Hart  was  a  man  who  all  his  life  long 
endured  hardship,  and,  what  is  worse,  misapprehension. 
But  he  Worked  steadily  on,  passionately,  patiently;  and  it 
is  perhaps  only  in  years  yet  to  come  that  the  crown  which 

THE    NEW    HIGH-ARM    IMPROVED 


IB  b 


WITH  THE  OSCILLATING  SHUTTLE, 

JUST    BEING    INTRODUCED, 

Differs  in  itearli/  all  points  ffoni,  tini/  3[<u-Uine  niannfactnred  hij  its  heveto- 
fori',  and  ive  coitjitJcntli/  claim  for  it: 

Strength  and  Durability  unequaled. 
Incomparable  for  EASE  OF  OPERATION. 
Jjf  ot  equaled  for  Simplicity  of  Construction. 
{5-reat  Rapidity  and  almost  NOISELESS. 
JJquipped  with  every  Valuable  Improvement. 
JJ^ange  of  work  far  exceeding  any  other  Machine. 

OUR  SALES  BEING  OVER  600,000  MACHI  N  ES  AN  NUALLY,  is 
sufficient  evidence  of  the  SINGER'S  superiority  over  all  others. 

fi®°"For  furtlier  information  please  eall  upon  anv  of  our  anthorized  agents,  or 
at  our  office. 

THE  SINSER  MANUFACTURING  COMPANY, 
TRADE  WITH  THE  RELIABLE 

LEXINGTON  PLUMBING  CO., 

BATH  ROOM  FIXTURES,  PUMPS,  Etc. 
Gas  Machines,  Chandeliers,  and  Lamps  of  every  Description. 


M.  P.  LANCASTER,  President.  E.  D.  SAYRE,  Treasurer. 

J.  H.  DAVIDSON,  General  Manager.  G.  W.  WILLIAMS,  Secretary. 

M.  P.  LANCASTER.  \VM.  WARREN.  FR.  WATERS. 

JNO.  T.  SHELBY.  J.  H.  DAVIDSON.  R.  D.  WILLIAMS. 

J.  W.  SAYRE. 


iMEMORIAL    TO    JOEL     T.    HART.  75 

he  fully  earned  will  be  placed  on  his  brow.  He  has  left 
behind  him  a  statue  of  unequaled  beauty.  This  statue, 
the  epitome  of  his  life,  and  the  result  of  eighteen  years  of 
uninterrupted,  ardent  lal)()r,  was  to  have  been  brought  to 
America  this  coming  spring  by  Mr.  Hart  himself.  His 
letters  were  full  of  hope  is  regard  to  the  anticipated  visit 

Ciocinnali,  New  Orleans  and  Texas  Pacific  Railwaf. 

CINCINNATI  SOUTHERN  RAILWAY, 

ALABAiyiA  GREAT  SOUTHERN  RAILROAD, 

NEW  ORLEANS  AND  NORTHEASTERN  RAILROAD, 

VICKSBURG  AND  IVIERIDIAN  RAILROAD, 
ViCKSBURG.  SHREVEPORT  AND  PACIFIC  RAILROAD. 

DOUBLE  DAILY  THROUGH  TRAINS, 
WITH  PALACE.  HOTEL  AI\ID  SLEEPING  CARS. 

A.3srr)  THE 

WORLD'S  Exposition  at  New  Orleans, 

IDEOIEJaynBZEIE?,,    1884. 

JOHN  SCOTT,  RICHARD   CARROLL,  E.P.WILSON. 

Prest.  and  Genl.  Mgr.  Genl.   Supt.  Genl.  Passr.  Agt. 


O.  W,  SCHXJLTZ, 

Agent,  Lexington,  Ky. 


76  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

to  his  native  land.  Thirteen  years  had  elapsed  since  his 
last  trip  to  America,  and  now  he  was  to  come  and  bring 
it — his  life-work. 

He  called  it  sometimes  the  "  Triumph  of  Purity,"  the 
thought  embodied  in  it  being  that  the  truest  womanhood 
is  superior  to  the  lower  arts  of  love.     She  stands,  a  nude 


JOHN   CHUIiCII   cfc   CO. 

DEALKRS    IN 

SHEET  3IUSIC  AND  3IUSIC  BOOKS, 

VIOLINS,  PIANOS        STRINGS, 

FLUTES,  Ar>V^   4   NTO  CELLOS, 

GUITARS,     OKGrANS,  CORNETS, 

Music    Boxes,  Music   Stands,  Piano  Covers,  Etc.,  Etc. 

WE   MAKE   A    SPECIALTY    OF 

FirVE     BA]VJOS, 

Including  suoli  celebrated  makes  as  those  of  Schall,  Stewart,  and  Dobson. 
J5gg°^  Write  to  us  for  anything  in  the  MUSIC  line. 

J-QH:]^   CB:-U-I^CB:   &   CO.,  Onq-ciN-nsrj^Ti,  o. 

HEADQUARTERS   FOR 

FURS, CLOAKS,  and  GENTLEMEN'S  HATS 

OF  SUPERIOR  QUALITIES, 

8®°"  Send  for  our  Illustrated  Catalogue,  about  September  ist. 

A.  E.  BuRKHARDT  &   Co. 
113  WEST  FOURTH  STREET,  CINCINNATI. 

LIISTDEISI  A.  rsr    BROS. 

Q-R^Isrr),    CYCLOID,    SQUARE    JVND    XJPRIGIIT 

LINDEMAN  ORGANS.  MUSICAL  MERCHANDISE. 

factory:  )      CIHCINNAII,   OHIO.     |  ^--^•- 


92  Bleeker  Street,         \     ""'""'■'"■■)   •"■•"     J        ZANESVILLE,  O. 
NEW    YORK.  )  171,  173  W.  Fourth  St,  i  21  N.  Fifth  st. 


H.    &^   S.    POGMJJE, 

IMPORTERS, 

Wliolesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in 

Dry  Goods,  Millinery, 

112, 114W.Fourtl?St.,  bGt.Vii!e&  Race 
ciisrciNJsr^Ti,  o. 


Importer  of  and  Wholesale  Dealer  in 

FINE  CIGARS  and  TOBACCO 

IMPORTED  and  KEY  WEST  CIGARS 

a  specialty. 

Manuficturers  Agent  Smoking  Totaccos&Oigirottes 

166  VINE  STREET,  CINCINNATI,  O. 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART.  77 

female  figure  of  exquisite  proportions,  firmly  balanced 
upon  one  foot,  and  in  the  act  of  stepping  forward.  The 
whole  form  breathes  of  buoyant  life  and  latent  energy  for 
action,  but  is  at  the  same  time  full  of  repose.  In  her  left 
hand,  and  high  in  front  of  her  forehead,  she  holds  the 
arrow  of  a  little  Cupid,  who  runs  by  her  side,  with  both 


THE  BDMET  HOUSE 

CINCINNATI. 
Strictly    First    Class, 

Location  Most  Central. 

DuNKLEE,  Zimmerman  &  Barnes, 


PROPRIEIORS. 


ESTABLISHKD,    1843. 


Sllit^S    AND    PINE    DI^ESS    GOODS, 

LE  BOUTILLIEE  &  SBIPSON, 

Importers  and  Retailers  of 


m,  104, 106  W.  FOni^Tp  gO^.,  CINCINN/ITI, 

Special  attention  given  to  orders.    Samples  sent  upon  application. 


7o  MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART. 

his  arms  reached  up  and  standing  on  his  very  toes  in  his 
earnest  begging  for  his  weapon.  His  quiver  lies  on  the 
ground,  the  arrows  fallen  out,  and  his  whole  miserable 
little  soul  filled  with  the  fact  that  he  is  vanquished  by  a 
woman  who  has  no  need  of  arts  to  conquer  true  love.  It 
could  not  have  a  fitter  name  than  "  Woman" — taking  the 

DIAMONOS,  WATCHES,  ARTISTIC  JEILRI,  CLOCKS, 

STERLING  SILVERWARES,  BRONZES,  EUROPEAN  AND  JAPANESE  FANCY 
GOODS,  AMERICAN  ELECTRO-SILVER-PLATED  TABLEWARES. 

DUHME  &  CO.,  FOURTH  and  WALNUT,  CINCINNATI,  Import  Diamonds  and 
mount  them  in  the  most  elesrant  manner;  mnnnfacture  Solid  Gold  Jewelry,  Gold 
and  Silver  Watch  Cases,  Spectacles,  Masonic  Charms  and  Rings. 

DUHME  &  CO.,  import  fine  Swiss  Watches,  French  Clocks,  Bronzes,  and  Euro- 
pean F"ancy  goods. 

DUHME  &  CO.  are  dealers  in  ALL  reputable  brands  of  Watches,  made  in  the 
United  States. 

DUH.ME  &  CO'S  manufactures  of  Sterling  Silver  Tablewares  are  Stamped  and 
guaranteed  925-1000  Fine,  the  standard  for  English  Sterling. 

DUHME  &  CO.  are  among  the  few  prominent  manufactures  of  Sterling  Silver- 
wares in  the  United  States  who  do  not  produce  rolled  or  machine-made  wares,  their 
entire  product  being  hand-made,  hand-engraved  and  hand-burnished,  by  which 
processes  only  are  the  best  results  realized. 

Fourteen  styles  of  Spoons  and  Forks  and  complete  lines  of  larger  pieces;  also, 
chests  of  silver  constantly  in  stock  or  made  to  order. 

DUHME  &  CO.  sell  all  reputable  brandsnf  .American  Electro-Silver- Plated  Table- 
wares, and  in  their  salesrooms  are  always  found  the  choice  products  of  the  Gorham 
Manufacturing  Company,  and  the  Meriden  Brittania  Company. 

The  House  of  DUH.NIh;  it  CO.,  in  its  facilities  for  manufacturing,  importing,  and 
in  its  Wholesale  and  Retail  Departments,  presents  a  combination  to  be  found  in  no 
other  city  on  the  continent;  and,  located  as  it  is,  at  the  center  of  population  of  the 
United  States,  attracts  attention  in  all  directions. 

Orders  and  inquiries  by  mail  receive  prompt  attention. 


a  V^  ■HVISTK'  ;»rATERIAI.S. 
■■  W  V  ■■Ma  <'oinple<e  Nioek  of 
Mm        m^        I       Ai'tic*l«-.s  used  by  Art- 

^  ^,  ^1   ■      ^ft^     Oil  niKl  Water  t'olors. 

China  Paintin;;.  Xoveltiew  for  l>eoor.-i(ion. 
NliidieNin  Flowers*.  I.ainlseape.  ami  Fiaiire. 
We  Manuf:ieliire  I.ou  and  :»le«liuMi  l*ri<-ed 
Franie!*:al«*ollie.tIo.>*t  Fles-aiil  4»old.  l>liisli, 
anfl  Kr«>nxe  <jiood>t.  Art  I'ataloaiieH  F'ree. 
A.  B.  i:i><»SS«X.  .Ir.,  Importer  A-  .llanutjte- 
tnrer,  18G  IV.  4th  St.,  C'iiielniiati.  O. 


GEO.  A.  BOWEN, 

M.\NUF.\CTURER   OF 

The  only  establishment  devoted  exclusively  to  the  manufacture 
of  STAINED  GLASS  IN  CINCINNATI. 

SALESROOM    AND   FACTORY  184  W.   FOURTH  ST. 

CORRESPONDENCE    SOLICITED. 


MEMORIAL    TO    JOEL    T.    HART.  ,      79 

word  in  its  fullest,  broadest,  deepest  sense.  From  what- 
ever point  of  view  this  work  is  regarded,  the  loftiest  de- 
mands of  high  art  are  met  and  satisfied.  Turn  it  around 
and  about,  and  from  all  sides  the  pure  lines  of  grace  and 
beauty  are  unbroken.  They  sweep  in  great,  harmonious 
waves  from  the  crown  of  her  pure  forehead  to  the  tips  of 
her  lovely  feet.  Look  at  it  in  front,  behind,  from  the  side, 
and  it  fills  the  eye  with  liarmonious  completion.  And, 
furthermore,  the  thought  embodied  is  as  full  of  lofty  in- 
telligence as  the  manner  in  which  it  is  carried  out. 

GQUSIGAL 

Can    have    their    orders    for   Sheet    Music   and    Music 
Books   filled  proniptly,  by  mail,  at  lowest  prices. 

Special  Inducements  to  Schools,  Seminaries,  Colleges, 
and  Musical  Professors  of  Kentucky. 


.CATALOGUES  FRKK  ON   UK(iri:sT. 

GEO.  D.  NEWHALL  CO. 

No.  56  West  Fourth  Street,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

TO  SHnPPIHG  EXCIBSIfllllSTS  llHn  1II5ITI1BS  TO  CIIICIIIIIIITI 

WE  GLARANTEK  LDWE.ST  PRICES  ON 

Silks,  Velvets,  Casberes,  Dress  Goods,  Hosiery,  Gloves, 

FURNISHING  GOODS,  EMBROIDERIES,  LACES,  RIBBONS,  CORSETS, 

Xj-^aDiES'   cxj0..a.:k:s,   s-ctits,   eoots,   -a-ostis   shoes, 

A  CiiU  Ilesi>eotfuny  Solicited. 

BELL,   MILLER   &  CO. 

oo,  93,  9ir  w.  FaxjuTH:  ST.,  ci]srci]sr]sr^^Ti,  o. 


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80 
THE  GREAT  SOUTHERN  COOK  BOOK. 


"pou^el^eepiiig  in  the  Blue  ^n$$." 

A  New  and  Practical  Cook  Book,     , 

Containing  nearly  1,000  recipes, 

Most  of  them  new,  and    all  of  them   tried   and   known  to  be  valuable— such   as 
have  been  used   by  the  housekeepers  of  Kentucky  and  other  States:  to- 
gether with  many  Miscellaneous   Recipes,   useful  in  families,  etc. 


WEW  AND    ENLARGED   EDITION, 


ELEVENTH  THOUSAND, 


Containing  many  new  recipes,  which  will  be  found  at  the  close  of  each  section, 

and  nine  pages  added  in  the  miscellaneous  department,  contributed  by 

Mrs.  Margaret  Preston  Davie,  Mrs.  Davenport,  Mrs.  B.  H.  Young, 

Mrs.  Brent,  Mrs.  Matt.  Turney,  and  other  noted  housekeepers. 


A  Treasure  to  every  Housekeeper. 

After  having  examined  the  Blue  Grass  Cook  Book,  it  gives  me  pleasure 
to  say  that  I  find  it  one  of  the  most  valuable  receipt  books  I  have  ever  seen. 
Being  filled  with  just  those  things  we  all  need  in  everyday  cooking,  it  will 
be  a  treasure  to  ever}'  housekeeper. — Mrs.  W.  C.  P.  Breckenridge,  Lex- 
ington, Ky. 

From  the  Region  of  Best  Housekeepers, 

It  comes  from  a  section  of  country  in  which  the  ladies  know  how  to  make 
good  housekeepers.  In  the  language  of  another  writer,  we  may  say  of  this 
excellent  work : 

"  'Tis,  in  recipes,  the  chief 
Of  all  perfections  to  be  plain  and  brief." 

—  The  Ladies'  Pearl,  Nashville,  Tenn. 


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Price,  $1.50. 

Sent  by  mail,  postpaid,  on  receipt  of  price. 

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